Re: devices with more than one node

[Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>]

 On Tue, Jan 13, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:38:42PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > How is udev supposed to handle devices with more than one node?
> 
> udev will get a hotplug event for every node that is created in sysfs.

I will check if I can make use of that.

> > inputdevices have also an event node attached.
> 
> Yes, and you get two different hotplug events, and udev just works,
> right?  (this is with the kernel patches I sent out last week...)

I tried the -mm tree, and /proc/bus/input/devices differs indeed. Havent
tried to feed udev with the data.

> > Maybe I miss the obvious, but how do I match scsi as example? Not that
> > sg provides a sg 'dev' entry today, but an external PROGRAM could not
> > provide an relative symlink to sgN.
> 
> scsi needs to create a scsi_generic class (or some such name) and have
> it contain the sg information.  It should not be in the cdev directory
> like it currently is (that's badly broken and should have never made it
> in...)  That sg class can contain the symlink back to the device that it
> is associated with.
> 
> Does this help?

Yes. Do you have a patch for that? Or should the scsi people do it?



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