Re: [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 20:27:46 EST


On Thursday 15 September 2005 20:04, Kay Sievers wrote:
> I like that the child devices are actually below the parent device
> and represent the logical structure. I prefer that compared to the
> symlink-representation between the classes at the same directory
> level which the input patches propose.

Why don't we take it a step further and abandon classes altogether?
This way everything will grow from their respective hardware devices.

Class represent a set of objects with similar characteristics. In
this regard event0 is no "lesser" than input0. Although they are
linked they are objects of the same importance. I do want to see
all input interfaces without scanning bunch of directories.

--
Dmitry
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