From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:49:43 +0000 Subject: Re: The case of udev and the missing /dev/input/mice Message-Id: <20050921154943.GA7387@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <1127270286.10585.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1127270286.10585.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:33:19AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 9/21/05, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:19:35PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote: > > > Kay Sievers 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ 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