Re: devices with more than one node

[Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>]

 On Wed, Jan 14, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:29:37PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >  On Tue, Jan 13, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:11:22PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > >  On Tue, Jan 13, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:38:42PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > > > > inputdevices have also an event node attached.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, and you get two different hotplug events, and udev just works,
> > > > > right?  (this is with the kernel patches I sent out last week...)
> > > > 
> > > > I tried the -mm tree, and /proc/bus/input/devices differs indeed. Havent
> > > > tried to feed udev with the data.
> > > 
> > > Look at /sys/class/input in the -mm kernel.  I didn't do anything with
> > > the /proc/bus/input stuff.
> > 
> > I did not load evdev.ko on the other box. Anyway, I havent tested it
> > yet, but what will happen with the /dev/input/mice multiplexer and one
> > of the 2 USB mice will be removed? I think /dev/input/mice will
> > disappear, have to verify that today.
> 
> It doesn't do that for me, try testing the code before making such
> claims :)

/dev/input/mice has no real device behind it, so it is safe. Can you add
that to udev.rules to keep compatibility?

# input devices
KERNEL="mice",           NAME="input/%k"
KERNEL="keyboard",       NAME="input/%k"
KERNEL="mouse*",         NAME="input/%k"
KERNEL="event*",         NAME="input/%k"


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