Re: can't seem to ignore a battery

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:44:34PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> kay wrote:
>  > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 17:50, David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> wrote:
>  > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:06 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > >> i'm hoping someone can explain why my rule containing an
>  > >> "ignore_device" option for a power_supply device seems to be
>  > >> ignored. ??some sample output from udevadm test, and udevadm are
>  > >> available here: ??http://pastie.org/695548
>  > >
>  > > Like last_rule (which we covered a few weeks ago), things like
>  > > ignore_device probably needs to go (although I haven't thought much
>  > > about it and I don't know why it was added - probably a broken driver I
>  > > guess). Trying to hide or ignore events at the udev level is just wrong
>  > > on a number of levels.
>  > 
>  > Yeah, that's the same issue as last_rule. It's really wrong to show
>  > stuff in sysfs which gets enumerated, but to try to suppress such
>  > events at device creation time.
> 
> can someone point me at a thread that explains why being able to
> configure one's system to ignore a device is so plainly wrong? 
> i'm clearly missing something.

Why is your kernel exporting something that you are trying to ignore?
Just fix your kernel driver and it should be no problem, right?

thanks,

greg k-h