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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:54:57 +0000
Subject: Re: Patches for device names
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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=ADd
> > 		DEVPATH=3D/class/input/mice
> > 		DEVNAME=3D/dev/input/mice
> > 		SUBSYSTEM=3Dinput
> > 		MAJOR=13
> > 		MINORc
> >=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.

Maybe better than nothing, yeah, but the basic /dev name is in a lot of
cases not too interesting, but the symlinks are, and they will not be
known by the kernel.

Kay