Re: default udev rules

[Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>]

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On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:29 -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:06:46PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 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 <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Where does the kernel not give the "right" name today?
> > > > 
> > > > For a start:
> > > 
> > > The large majority of those are because you want a subdirectory to make
> > > things pretty.  The kernel can't do anything about that.
> > > 
> > 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?
> 
> Because that would break the LSB naming standard of these devices,
> making things backwardly incompatible.  Is that something you want to
> push through lkml on your own just to alleviate a single line in a udev
> file?
> 
What LSB naming standard?

Do you mean the LANANA Linux Allocated Devices list?

In which case, I humbly submit the following quote:

 13 char        Input core
                  0 = /dev/input/js0    First joystick
                  1 = /dev/input/js1    Second joystick
                    ...
                 32 = /dev/input/mouse0 First mouse
                 33 = /dev/input/mouse1 Second mouse
                    ...
                 63 = /dev/input/mice   Unified mouse
                 64 = /dev/input/event0 First event queue
                 65 = /dev/input/event1 Second event queue

Right now, Linux names these wrongly in the kernel.

My patches would simply restore Linux to match the naming standard :-)

Scott
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