From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:06:46 +0000 Subject: Re: default udev rules Message-Id: <1218474406.14932.40.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-iFJcHfrruEhfIzQx/IgR" List-Id: References: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> In-Reply-To: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-iFJcHfrruEhfIzQx/IgR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:58 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Aug 11, Greg KH wrote: > >=20 > > > Where does the kernel not give the "right" name today? > >=20 > > For a start: >=20 > The large majority of those are because you want a subdirectory to make > things pretty. The kernel can't do anything about that. >=20 Why not? We have the source code to the kernel. The patch to allow "/" in device names, as exported to user space, must be trivial? udev already converts "!" to "/", so we could just use that? Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-iFJcHfrruEhfIzQx/IgR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBIoHGmSnQiFMl4yK4RAjezAJ4kLDHfXS+HgoAIdsijV5pRxfFr1gCcCzQg iG9LHzGqevL7ZWiNA6BjxQc= =gzgO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-iFJcHfrruEhfIzQx/IgR--