What's "devicefs" -- some new filesystem? Or a mis/re-naming of "driverfs"?
I assume you don't mean "devfs".
> The device tree (for which devicefs is the fs representation) was originally
> meant to enable good device power management and configuration.
Surely a driver using IP-over-wire like iSCSI is no less deserving of appearing
in "driverfs" than one whose driver uses custom-protocol-over-a-"wire" like USB,
FireWire, FC, IR, SCSI, or Bluetooth? I don't see why some disks (for example)
should deserve to be "more equal than others" -- and approved to be in driverfs.
Admittedly some of those may have few power management concerns beyond basic
startup/shutdown sequencing. But the configuration management issues won't
go away just because a driver talks to a device over some more generalized
notion of wire. I suspect those are probably more important, long-term, than
the power management hooks. I seem to recall other operating systems starting
out with a device/driver tree well before power management existed, and was
surprised when I noticed Linux didn't have one yet.
No, of course driverfs isn't for everything. But if it's not for all drivers,
then what's it for -- just power management?
- Dave
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