Re: default udev rules

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:06:46PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:58 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > On Aug 11, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Where does the kernel not give the "right" name today?
> > > 
> > > For a start:
> > 
> > The large majority of those are because you want a subdirectory to make
> > things pretty.  The kernel can't do anything about that.
> > 
> Why not?
> 
> We have the source code to the kernel.
> 
> The patch to allow "/" in device names, as exported to user space, must
> be trivial?
> 
> udev already converts "!" to "/", so we could just use that?

Because that would break the LSB naming standard of these devices,
making things backwardly incompatible.  Is that something you want to
push through lkml on your own just to alleviate a single line in a udev
file?

Please, be realistic here.

greg k-h