From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:30:22 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and the kernel's idea of a device Message-Id: <20040406203022.GB8373@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040406192223.GA4853@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040406192223.GA4853@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ 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