so what's the deal with the proposed /sys/subsystem?

[Greg KH]

On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 06:54:35AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   still methodically perusing the courseware i'll be teaching week
> after next, right now going through section on kobjects and sysfs and
> reading the kernel doc file Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt, which
> mentions a proposed /sys/subsystem hierarchy which, when(?) it exists,
> will obsolete /sys/{bus,class,block}.  so what's the current status of
> this subsystem directory?  is there a timeline for this?  just
> curious.

We've had patches that did this for over 5 years, it's just a matter of
finishing them up and pushing them in.

In other words, it could happen next week, or next year, or 5 years from
now, who really knows :)

thanks,

greg k-h