linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

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Message-Id: <20070101.193624.104645809.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:36:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmk@...x.com
Cc:	segher@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...top.org, wmb@...mworks.com, hch@...radead.org,
	jg@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

From: David Kahn <dmk@...x.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:40:25 -0800

> If that doesn't fit the model of /sys or /proc,
> I suppose it could be done in a separate file
> system, but that's overkill, isn't it?

Or by a device driver, which is what OFW systems have
been doing for years, and we have it already, it's called
/dev/openprom and if you provide the of_*() API you could
use it out of the box too.
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