From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:39:16 +0000 Subject: Re: Moving Ubuntu to upstream udev rules Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1229669228.14012.30.camel@quest> In-Reply-To: <1229669228.14012.30.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 00:26, Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:03:52PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > names >> > >> > you rename some devices and disagree with devices.txt >> > >> > rawctl -> raw/rawctl >> >> The tools use that, if I remember. Someone maintaining the tools should >> tell, devices.txt is pretty unreliable sometimes. > > The upstream raw(8) command supports /dev/rawctl and also > /dev/raw/rawctl. I think it makes more sense to use raw/rawctl when > you have all your raw devices in raw/ subdirectory (e.g. /dev/raw/raw). The raw tool looks for /dev/rawctl first and the fallback to /dev/raw/rawctl is named DEVFS_*. Should we turn that order around and remove the devfs notion from the raw tool and let udev create a dev/raw/rawctl node? Thanks, Kay