Re: driverfs problems

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Tue, 21 May 2002 23:24:49 +0200


Hi!

> I have a.t.m. three different ideas for how to structure the driverfs, in
> this case:
> a) flat listing:
> /root/channel/{0000,0100,0103,0102,1000-13ff}
> advantage: reflects the real physical layout, no policy
> disadvantage: difficult to parse as a human (similar to pre-devfs /dev/*),
> possible scalability problems when scanning through long lists in
> kernel

I'd prefer this. 65000 is not that much, and anything else is ugly...
Pavel

-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/