On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:38:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > NB: it will break one day, one way or another, when gregkh makes the
> > > /sys/class -> /sys/devices conversion. However, I'd want to try not to break
> > > the new pcmciautils userspace too often...
> >
> > Why would the conversion that I'm working on break this userspace code?
> > You are only using the device directory, which will not change at all.
>
> Actually, pcmciautils uses both paths starting with
> /sys/bus/pcmcia/devices/ and /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket%d/ --
> and I was expecting that the latter path won't be available somewhen in
> future?
That will just be resolved by a symlink. The access path to the device will
stay the same, but the location of the "real" object will move to /devices.
All classification will point into the unified /devices tree but keep
the pathes as we have today. /sys/class will contain only symlinks in
the end.
Kay
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