Hi, On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:25:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > 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. OK, thanks for this clarification! Dominik
