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

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Message-ID: <20190308163411.GA12898@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:34:11 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.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 Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2019-03-08 03:56:19, John Ogness wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Good point. "class" looks better to me as well.
> 
> Greg, any opinion, where to put the entries for struct console ?

Hang them off of the device that the console belongs to?

Classes and busses are almost identical except:
	- busses is the binding of a driver to a device (usb, pci, etc.)
	- classes are usually userspace interactions to a device (input,
	  tty, etc.)

So this sounds like a class to me.

If you want me to review this, I'll be glad to so do once 5.1-rc1 is
out...

thanks,

greg k-h