On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:18:22AM -0400, Adam Belay wrote:
> As stated above, the keyboard actually does have a real location to hang off of.
> Nonetheless, a keyboard controller is a physical device. It's very different
> from a "virtual device" like a tty. Therefore, it seems unreasonable to make
> virtual devices belong to the "platform" bus.
>
> If a device doesn't have a parent device, it belongs at the root of the tree.
> That's the only obvious way to represent such a lack of dependency. This
> applies to both class and physical devices.
Well, a VT is obviously a child of the graphics card and of the
keyboard. Similarly for the 'mice' device, which is a child of all input
devices that offer mouseying capabilities.
It's just impossible to express in a tree.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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