Re: [RFC] iSeries virtual i/o sysfs files

[Jeff Garzik]

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patch is to elicit comments (hopefully constructive).
>
> OK, this is what the patch does.  All the iSeries virtual devices now
> appear in /sys/devices/vio and /sys/bus/vio/devices.  Unfortunately,
> apart from the veth devices, there are all possible devices there at
> the moment - I need to think about how to reduce it but that requires
> moving all the probe code into vio.c ...

I'm not sure I entirely parse the third sentence in this paragraph, but 
nonetheless...

My general idea was that vio should be presented as a bus, so that 
userland could enumerate all vio devices.  This approach seems along 
these lines, and I have no objections to the patch.

	Jeff


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