On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 22:39, Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sure, if there is something we all can use, we will switch over to it. >> Until that happens, hacks have to be maintained by the people relying >> on them, not by udev upstream. > > You can use it. Just like many platforms (of varying architectures) > already do in other contexts, all using unmodified Linus kernels. > > Device tree is a well-documented cross-platform way of providing > hardware identification information (and in great detail) to the > kernel. I think it is the system you are asking for. We are not discussing the usefulness or completeness of any 'device tree' here. That's an unrelated issue. It's about a dead simple 'machine identification' that can be retrieved without jumping through hoops. x86 also does not need to look in the ACPI tree for matching up the keymap, it has a simple interface to export hardware parameters in a sane format. There is no reason other platforms can't do the same. > Am I right in > saying that its location in /proc is the main downfall that you are > criticising it for? (i.e. would your viewpoint change if it appeared > in /sys tomorrow?) Sure, but probably not a single file, it can not move to /sys. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
