Re: default udev rules

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

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On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 20:01 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> its name, which we would change.
> 
> > 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
> 
> It could, possibly, but then we get all the devfs and "policy in kernel"
> discussions back, if we add such a thing. :)
> 
Ahh, but we're not doing "policy" in kernel -- we're just supplying the
default according to devices.txt

You'd obviously stil be able to override that in udev, if you so
wished ;)

But it'd mean the default udev tarball wouldn't contain any name
overrides

Scott
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