Re: Generic battery interface

Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-28T16:10:48Z

On 7/28/06, Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 4) sysfs - all capabilities, IDs, etc for input devices exported there as well.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but how do I conncet a sysfs directory with a /dev device?
> So far the only way I found is to compare /sys/whatever/dev with the
> major+minor of the dev file, which requires brute-force enumeration on
> at least one side.
>

Can't we have udev make a symlink when it creates device node? Kernel
can't provide this link since it knows nothing about naming. You could
either have a symlink from /sys/ or maybe /dev/enum/<name matching
print_dev_t() output>

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Dmitry