On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:27:46AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > more later after i do more reading. > > What specifically are you trying to figure out here? there's nothing specific so much as i just want a clear idea of the *big* picture. all of the documentation i read is perfectly adequate in terms of explaining the low-level details, but is maddeningly vague in discussing how it all hangs together at the *highest* level. one thing i'm still unclear on is how, if you can't traverse the sysfs tree from the top down, how does a power down cleanly start to shut stuff off from the leaves and work its way back up? how does the power down procedure *get* to the leaves of the tree in the first place? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
