Re: default udev rules

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

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On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:24 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 18:08 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Because we change many device names in sysfs to be different from today.
> I don't think we can do that. Current HAL, and all sorts of simpler
> stuff would just stop working.
> 
Shouldn't HAL be using the DEVNAME from udev anyway?  Otherwise it would
break today if someone wrote a udev rule.

Is there any particular reason that the kernel couldn't include DEVNAME
in the uevent for things like mouse0?

add /class/input/mouse0
DEVNAME=input/mouse0

Scott
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