On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:40:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:54:48PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > The below patch is a first pass at implementing subclasses, for review > > and comment. > > Oops, when you mentioned this on irc, I thought you were referring to > class_devices not classes. I don't want classes to be able to be > nested, only class devices. > > I don't see a need for nested classes, as I thought the input thread had > resolved itself so that it didn't need it (but I stopped paying > attention, sorry, so I might be wrong here...)
The tailing part of the thread is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111873628324649&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-hotplug-devel&m=111877313202313&w=2 where Hannes and Dmitry seemed to indicate (to my reading) that they were looking for subclasses. Perhaps it's not necessary. > Why can't you just use class_device's that can have children? That way > the /sys/block stuff could be converted to also use this. I will investigate. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
