On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:23:06 +1000 David Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:15:30PM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote: > > I've been paying partial attention to the following thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-hotplug&m=131352330625733&w=2 > > > > It's an interesting discussion. I realize that > > moving /proc/device-tree to /sys would probably violate > > sysrq-rules.txt, but it would be nice to have a common way to > > represent things like cpu type, board id, etc in /sys that is > > populated from the DT. I haven't seen that discussed here yet, has > > anyone considered it? > > Seems like a specious argument to me. Despite all the problems of > /proc, the contents of /proc/device-tree are perfectly well-defined. > Or at least, its problems are entirely its own and not related to the > general problems of /proc. The only argument here seems to be that > it's in /proc, and that's dealt with if that helper script just thinks > of /proc/device-tree as one possible place for the device tree path. > In the future it could be under /sys. Indeed on sparc I think their > device tree representation is a separate filesystem and could be > anywhere. Under sparc, it's typically in /openprom iirc. I'd be fine with converting it to /sys/device-tree or some such thing if that was okay with maintainers. _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
