Re: Generic battery interface

Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30T12:50:10Z

On 7/30/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:52:52PM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
>
> > Coming to think of it, to solve the dev->sys direction, maybe we
> > should have symlinks like the following?
> > /sys/dev/8/0 -> /sys/block/sda
> > /sys/dev/11/0 -> /sys/block/sr0
> > /sys/dev/116/24 -> /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c
>
> Since you can have more nodes in /dev with the same node numbers, and
> this actually is useful (for granting more users/groups access to the
> devices in question), this is not going to fly.

No, I'm talking about the *other* direction now: I'm looking at a file
in /dev and I want to find the corresponding sysfs device (if any).

Anyway turns out that sysfs dev numbers are not unique either -- some
devices with major=1 apper twice in sysfs. To give a random example:

$ cat /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/class/mem/random/dev
1:8
1:8

And these aren't symlinks.
Shem