Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 08:16:38 EST


On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:26:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> This adds /sys/class/mem which enables all mem char devices to show up
> properly in udev.
>
> Has been posted to linux-kernel every so often since last July, and
> acked by a number of other kernel developers.

This is pointless. The original point of sysfs and co was to present the
physical device tree, where these devices absolutely fit into. Why are
you doing this at all? Creating thse through udev doesn't make sense as
they need to be present anyway..

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