From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:06:14 +0000 Subject: Re: default udev rules Message-Id: <1218477974.14932.55.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-Cl9ay9l13vUaRxSXJmf7" List-Id: References: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> In-Reply-To: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-Cl9ay9l13vUaRxSXJmf7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 20:01 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > its name, which we would change. >=20 > > Is there any particular reason that the kernel couldn't include DEVNAME > > in the uevent for things like mouse0? > >=20 > > add /class/input/mouse0 > > DEVNAME=3Dinput/mouse0 >=20 > It could, possibly, but then we get all the devfs and "policy in kernel" > discussions back, if we add such a thing. :) >=20 Ahh, but we're not doing "policy" in kernel -- we're just supplying the default according to devices.txt You'd obviously stil be able to override that in udev, if you so wished ;) But it'd mean the default udev tarball wouldn't contain any name overrides Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-Cl9ay9l13vUaRxSXJmf7 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) iD8DBQBIoH+WSnQiFMl4yK4RAv+oAJ9m1R9EjVf3KuHnRzocV4FE0b8jIACgqhjh ech35/2vI7pXfXxiviUZqtA= =CJVZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Cl9ay9l13vUaRxSXJmf7--