From: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patches for device names
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:57:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218650228.6882.64.camel@quest> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218648175.6882.63.camel@quest>
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On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >
> > b) kernel names remain the same, include DEVNAME in environment
> >
> > ACTION=add
> > DEVPATH=/class/input/mice
> > DEVNAME=/dev/input/mice
> > SUBSYSTEM=input
> > MAJOR=13
> > MINOR=63
> >
> > Pro: fixes sysfs and compatibility, attractive
> > Con: udev needs patching, extra macro in kernel
> >
>
> In this case, I would also argue we need devname in sysfs. There are
> enough tools out there who want to be able to correlate sysfs and devices.
>
That's what DeviceKit is for.
Scott
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-13 17:22 Patches for device names Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-13 17:49 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 17:50 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 17:57 ` Scott James Remnant [this message]
2008-08-13 18:02 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 18:16 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-13 18:33 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 18:38 ` David Zeuthen
2008-08-13 18:52 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-13 18:54 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-13 19:33 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
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