On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:24:15AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 9/26/06, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > >From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > > >This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices > >that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a > >parent. It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed. > > > > Why do you need multiple virtual devices? All parentless class devices > could grow from a single virtual device. They could, but it's a mess of a single directory if you do that. Having /sys/devices/virtual/tty/ as a place for all tty virtual device is nicer than /sys/devices/virtual/ as a single place for all of them (mem, network, tty, misc, etc.) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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