[linux-dvb] Re: refactoring

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:

> > > no, you don't have to. Finish the dvbdev sysfs implementation and you
> > > will get proper sysfs nodes even for you demod, decoder and networking
> > > devices, not only for the frontend.
> > >      
> > I would prefer to have a proper sysfs for the DVB - I really don't like having 
> > things randomly scattered about all over sysfs. For example, some of the 
> > frontends created extra sysfs device files for configuration - these ended up 
> > attached to some unrelated (to the end-user) i2c device instead of descending 
> > from the DVB stuff.
> >    
> That are simply some missing links in the device tree.  With complete
> sysfs support you will have a symlink pointing from
> /sys/class/dvb/dvb0.frontent0/device into the /sys/devices tree to the
> i2c device ...
>  
The frontend is by no means equivalent to an i2c device, so a symlink is 
probably not what you want to do here.

Holger