Am Freitag, 7. Dezember 2001 17:36 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:00:25PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Well, he still has a point. There are two subsystems with widly
> > overlapping functions. I must say, I feel this is not good. Yet, I have
> > no clue what to do.
> > Any ideas ?
>
> usbdevfs does not overlap with devfs. devfs is a dynamic major/minor
> replacement. While usbdevfs is a separate file system that provides access
But doesn't it replace major:minor combinations in order to provide access to
devices ?
> to the usb devices, much like the /proc code in /proc/bus/pci.
IMHO this is a misguided comparison as you don't open /proc/bus/pci to access
a device. The "devices" and "drivers" files of usbdevfs are comparable, and
frankly IMHO should become regular parts of what replaces procfs
> If anything, I could see us moving usbdevfs into driverfs but that's about
> it.
How are we going to support driverfs ? On the device driver level ?
Generically ? Both ?
Regards
Oliver
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