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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:11:21AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 9/21/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:49:43AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Actually, it would be nice if you could respin your patches that convert
> > all of the input devices to be dynamically created.  That would work
> > just fine today with no sysfs changes, right?
> >
> > That way, any future changes we do would be much smaller, and could be
> > done on top of your patchset.
> >
> > Or am I missing some deep dependencies in your patchset?
> >
> 
> Well, no ;) I was trying to make them separable. I will resping the
> dynamic allocation patches,

Great.

> but I would also like to get sysfs part going - there are bunch of
> locking issues (or rather absence of locking ;) ) in input core and I
> would like to fix it but I don't want to redo it later to account for
> sysfs rules.

I agree.

> That's why I am pushing to get some kind of sysfs resolution. Again,
> that "name override" would go away later, I do not propose it as a
> permanant solution.

I have to give a talk about this next week, so I want to have this done
by then so I have something to talk about :)

So don't worry, I am activly working on it, I have the basics done now,
just trying to get it all to work without oopsing in odd places...

thanks,

greg k-h


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