linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] printk: Add consoles to a virtual "console" bus

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Date:   Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:56:19 +0100
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] printk: Add consoles to a virtual "console" bus

On 2019-03-02, Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com> wrote:
> This patch embeds a device struct in the console struct, and registers
> them on a "console" bus so we can expose attributes in sysfs.

I expect that "class" would be more appropriate than "bus". These
devices really are grouped together based on their function and not the
medium by which they are accessed.

John Ogness