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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and the kernel's idea of a device
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:30:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040406203022.GB8373@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040406192223.GA4853@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:10:24PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said: 
> > > - it can print out the major/minor
> > 
> > Ick.  That just doesn't make much sense.
> 
> And yet, there are drivers that do that.

Which ones?  I'd be glad to go fix that up.

> > As it is very simple
> > to translate from the kernel device name to the real /dev name at any
> > point in time using udevinfo, why is that not sufficient?
> 
> Requires integrating udevinfo into various random userland apps...
> it's certainly doable, but it just doesn't seem very clean.

I agree, but what random userland apps are you talking about?  Can you
think of a cleaner suggestion?

thanks,

greg k-h


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-06 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-06 19:22 udev and the kernel's idea of a device Bill Nottingham
2004-04-06 19:59 ` Greg KH
2004-04-06 20:10 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-04-06 20:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-04-06 20:49 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-04-06 21:06 ` Greg KH
2004-04-06 21:14 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-04-06 21:43 ` Daniel Stekloff
2004-04-08 21:03 ` Greg KH

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