On Monday 25 June 2007 10:57:35 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > Sure, all devices have a "subsystem" link, you have to readlink()
> > > that, and if it ends in "block, you have a blockdev. But as mentioned
> > > in an earlier mail, you should stop scanning /sys/devices/ and always
> > > come from the subs
On 6/24/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 07:03:39 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 June 2007 08:49:47 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On 6/22/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 08 June 20
On Sunday 24 June 2007 07:03:39 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 June 2007 08:49:47 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On 6/22/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 08 June 2007 16:36:37 Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > Over time there
On 6/24/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2007 08:49:47 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 June 2007 16:36:37 Greg KH wrote:
> > > Over time there have been a number of problems when sysfs has changed
> > > in "une
On Saturday 23 June 2007 08:49:47 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 June 2007 16:36:37 Greg KH wrote:
> > > Over time there have been a number of problems when sysfs has changed
> > > in "unexpected" ways. Here's a document that Kay wrote a wh
On 6/22/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 08 June 2007 16:36:37 Greg KH wrote:
> Over time there have been a number of problems when sysfs has changed in
> "unexpected" ways. Here's a document that Kay wrote a while ago that
> I'd like to add to the kernel Documentation direct
On Friday 08 June 2007 16:36:37 Greg KH wrote:
> Over time there have been a number of problems when sysfs has changed in
> "unexpected" ways. Here's a document that Kay wrote a while ago that
> I'd like to add to the kernel Documentation directory to help userspace
> programmers out.
>
> Any comm
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 09:56 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:02:00 -0400 Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:36:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > The kernel exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation-details
> > > and depends on internal kernel-structu
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:02:00 -0400 Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:36:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > The kernel exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation-details
> > and depends on internal kernel-structures and layout. It is agreed upon
> > kernel developers, that the
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:36:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> The kernel exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation-details
> and depends on internal kernel-structures and layout. It is agreed upon
> kernel developers, that the Linux kernel does not provide a stable
> internal API. As sysf
On 08/06/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Over time there have been a number of problems when sysfs has changed in
"unexpected" ways. Here's a document that Kay wrote a while ago that
I'd like to add to the kernel Documentation directory to help userspace
programmers out.
Any comments or
On 6/9/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
> - Do not use libsysfs
> It makes assumptions about sysfs which are not true. Its API does not
> offer any abstraction, it exposes all the kernel driver-core
> implementation details in its own API. Therefore it is
Greg KH wrote:
- Do not use libsysfs
It makes assumptions about sysfs which are not true. Its API does not
offer any abstraction, it exposes all the kernel driver-core
implementation details in its own API. Therefore it is not better than
reading directories and opening the files yourself
On Jun 8 2007 13:36, Greg KH wrote:
>
>Any comments or critique of this is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>Rules to access device-information in the Linux kernel sysfs
>
>The kernel exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation-details
>and depends on intern
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