[PATCH v2] mdev: create devices from /sys/dev

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> (...)
>> This switches from using /sys/class as the place to look for
>> devices to create to using /sys/dev where all char and block
>> devices are listed.
> (...)
>> ChangeLog v1->v2:
>> - Restore the subsystem environment setting behaviour by
>>   following the subsystem symlink like decribed in the
>>   commit message. This may be needed by mdev scripts.
>> - Kill of /sys/block device scanning
>> - Do not fall back to /sys/class device scanning, just scan
>>   /sys/dev
>
> Thoughts about the v2 patch?
>
> - Yes?
> - No?
> - Linus is an idiot?

No comments on this for two weeks?

I understand that it's a scary change but it needs to
happen. IIO and GPIO are not working, probably others
too.

Also the patch was shown to save bytes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij