From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:33:41 +0000 Subject: Re: The case of udev and the missing /dev/input/mice Message-Id: <20050921163340.GC8766@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 11:11:21AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 9/21/05, Greg KH 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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