On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:15:25AM -0400, James Smart wrote: > > > Kay Sievers wrote: >>> Well, the <classname> prefix came about because there was namespace >>> overlap >>> between different classes (e.g. scsi_host and fc_host classes use the >>> same name, >>> and I think where we originally saw this was in the way serial ports were >>> enumerated >>> for some base systems as well). >>> >>> So I don't see how you can kill the <classname>:<devname> names by >>> SYSFS_DEPRECATED. >> With SYSFS_DEPRECATED, nothing will change. But these links don't exist >> with !SYSFS_DEPRECATED, because the class devices live in >> subdirectories, named after the class they come from, there is no >> namespace problem, or any problem to find these devices, you don't even >> need readdir() to look them up. > > Ok, it should have read : > I don't see how you can kill the <classname>:<devname> names w/ > !SYSFS_DEPRECATED. > > You still haven't answered my question about namespace overlap. What > happens when the > device belongs to multiple classes, and the classes have the same name for > the class > device ? I don't believe we ever want to be in the case where the classes > have to > understand a global namespace. I take it you haven't even looked at how !SYSFS_DEPRECATED works today, have you? Try it and you will see that the namespace issue has been taken care of a long time ago :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
