From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:57:08 +0000 Subject: Re: Patches for device names Message-Id: <1218650228.6882.64.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-vjy24V7NHopqaH6ggirT" List-Id: References: <1218648175.6882.63.camel@quest> In-Reply-To: <1218648175.6882.63.camel@quest> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-vjy24V7NHopqaH6ggirT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > >=20 > > b) kernel names remain the same, include DEVNAME in environment > >=20 > > ACTION=3Dadd > > DEVPATH=3D/class/input/mice > > DEVNAME=3D/dev/input/mice > > SUBSYSTEM=3Dinput > > MAJOR=3D13 > > MINOR=3D63 > >=20 > > Pro: fixes sysfs and compatibility, attractive > > Con: udev needs patching, extra macro in kernel > >=20 >=20 > In this case, I would also argue we need devname in sysfs. There are=20 > enough tools out there who want to be able to correlate sysfs and devices= . >=20 That's what DeviceKit is for. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-vjy24V7NHopqaH6ggirT 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) iD8DBQBIoyB0SnQiFMl4yK4RAsNwAJ4mgiC5qRiQlNIjUYrZF0HPxEDddgCfUhR7 WAVebWhQfz6dExAEr2BAXOk= =f/BL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-vjy24V7NHopqaH6ggirT--