Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices

    Phoronix: Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices

    Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...

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  • CommunityMember
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2019
    • 1378

    #2
    While perhaps the name should be "dummy_bus", or "simple_bus", simple is better, no matter it's name.

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    • JEBjames
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2018
      • 376

      #3
      Michael

      Typo

      "to allow devices to be created and automatically to it in cases" should maybe be ""to allow devices to be created and driver automatically bound to it in cases" (missing words)

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      • Guiorgy
        Phoronix Member
        • Jul 2024
        • 51

        #4
        Originally posted by JEBjames View Post
        Michael

        Typo

        "to allow devices to be created and automatically to it in cases" should maybe be ""to allow devices to be created and driver automatically bound to it in cases" (missing words)
        Took me a few tries to get it

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        • skeevy420
          Senior Member
          • May 2017
          • 8656

          #5
          Originally posted by CommunityMember View Post
          While perhaps the name should be "dummy_bus", or "simple_bus", simple is better, no matter it's name.
          Because those sound like synonyms for "regarded_bus" and "slow_bus" . . . as in . . . I bet you rode the "simple_bus" to get to and from school.

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          • Old Grouch
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2020
            • 696

            #6
            Why 'faux'? What's wrong with 'false' or 'fake', or give another language a go, like 'ersatz'. I regard the use of 'faux' as a leetle prétentieux.

            How about Welsh, and call it the ffug-bus, or, as it is a substitute, a sub-bus, or use Finnish as an homage to Linus and call it the vale-bus. If you want to reamain in the American idiom, how about the lite-bus?

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            • CommunityMember
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2019
              • 1378

              #7
              Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
              Because those sound like synonyms for "regarded_bus" and "slow_bus" . . . as in . . . I bet you rode the "simple_bus" to get to and from school.
              In some parts of the US, the slang used was "riding the short bus".

              Amusingly, the short bus was also used for transport for smaller class outings and smaller team events (it was not like there were dozens of students on the math team (at least at my HS)) because it was cheaper to operate, and easier to drive/maneuver.

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              • erniv2
                Senior Member
                • Apr 2022
                • 282

                #8
                So this thing is there to replace some /dev/* files that no user ever has to access, or do i misunderstand that?

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                • ssokolow
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2013
                  • 5108

                  #9
                  Originally posted by erniv2 View Post
                  So this thing is there to replace some /dev/* files that no user ever has to access, or do i misunderstand that?
                  If I understand it correctly, it's completely internal to the kernel and, unless you're writing a driver, you should never notice anything has changed.

                  (i.e. it's not in the interface between userspace and kernel space (the /dev nodes), it's in the interface between the things which make /dev nodes and the core of the kernel.)

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                  • soulsource
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2014
                    • 215

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Old Grouch View Post
                    Why 'faux'? What's wrong with 'false' or 'fake', or give another language a go, like 'ersatz'. I regard the use of 'faux' as a leetle prétentieux.

                    How about Welsh, and call it the ffug-bus, or, as it is a substitute, a sub-bus, or use Finnish as an homage to Linus and call it the vale-bus. If you want to reamain in the American idiom, how about the lite-bus?
                    I am pretty sure it is supposed to be a pun on Faux Pas.

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