From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:20:58 +0000 Subject: Re: devices with more than one node Message-Id: <20040113212058.GA2595@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040113193842.GA29887@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040113193842.GA29887@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:11:22PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:38:42PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > 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. Look at /sys/class/input in the -mm kernel. I didn't do anything with the /proc/bus/input stuff. > > > 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? The scsi people should do it :) But if pushed hard enough, I guess I could do it... I do need to make cdev disappear from the sysfs tree entirely anyway... If only I had more time. Anyone else want to do this? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel