Re: default udev rules

[Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>]

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On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:00 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> Sure, but how would we handle the bugs we create by renaming:
>   /sys/class/input/mouse0/
> to
>   /sys/class/input/input!mouse0/
> 
Why would we have any bugs?

We've already dropped rules for backward compatibility with previous
kernels, this would simply grow a rule like:

  KERNEL=="mouse0", KERNEL="input!mouse0"

which could go away after a short while.

> Add another file with a suggested name and perms to sysfs? :)
> 
Permissions can be still done in udev?

KERNEL=="input!mouse0", GROUP="..."

Scott
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