Re: Devfs and driverfs

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 15:31:31 EST

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:24:32PM +0100, Simon Turvey wrote:
> I apologise if this is a trivial question but I was hoping someone could
> explain or point me in the direction of more info.
>
> I understand the purpose and reason for devfs but I cannot find any info on
> driverfs. What's it for?

driverfs is a 'view by connection' view of everything in the system.
It useful for a number of things, from Power management to hinv type
tools. Read more at Documentation/driver-model.txt

Dave

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