Re: The case of udev and the missing /dev/input/mice

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:33:19AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 9/21/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:19:35PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
> > > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > At the time the input layer is fixed, the need for udevsend will
> > > > completely go away and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug should be disabled
> > > > when taking over control from the kernel - it is only needed in
> > > > initramfs.
> > > > After input is fixed, the whole event reordering and timeout handling
> > > > will be removed from udevd and we need to start udevd manually anyway.
> > >
> > > Isn't it fixed now? Or not merged yet?
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/15/59
> >
> > Not merged at all, we still are working on fixing up the driver core to
> > handle this properly...
> >
> 
> I think while driver core is being fixed we should go "Suse way" and
> add top-level input_dev class and merge input changes. Hovewer there
> will be compatibility issues with current installation (as there will
> be compatibility problems once we fix driver core but I'd rather force
> users to upgrade once)...
> 
> Greg, would you accept a patch that would allow a class override its
> subsustem as far as hotplug is concerned? This way "input_dev" class
> would set its name to "input" allowing using existing setups.

Ick, no way.  Let's fix this properly, there's no real need to do
something like this right now.

thanks,

greg k-h


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