From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and the kernel's idea of a device
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:03:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040408210356.GB13674@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040406192223.GA4853@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:14:33PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said:
> > > Off the top of my head, iostat, cdrom capability checkers, fbset
> > > and friends, etc. But, in the long run, see below.
> >
> > But those apps want to know the /dev node, right?
>
> Well, they want to know the dev node, and they use the device
> as a key to get auxillary information. For example, the framebuffer
> stuff has some limited auxillary information in /proc/fb, there's
> random CD-ROM info in /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info, etc.
Well the fb stuff should be moving to the sysfs tree someday soon. As
for the cdrom stuff, ide needs some major sysfs tweaking one of these
days for this very reason.
In the meantime, I don't really have any other suggestions, sorry.
greg k-h
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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
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 [this message]
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