From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:33:19 +0000 Subject: Re: The case of udev and the missing /dev/input/mice Message-Id: 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 9/21/05, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:19:35PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote: > > Kay Sievers writes: > > > > > At the time the input layer is fixed, the need for udevsend will > > > completely go away and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug should be disabled > > > when taking over control from the kernel - it is only needed in > > > initramfs. > > > After input is fixed, the whole event reordering and timeout handling > > > will be removed from udevd and we need to start udevd manually anyway. > > > > Isn't it fixed now? Or not merged yet? > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/15/59 > > Not merged at all, we still are working on fixing up the driver core to > handle this properly... > I think while driver core is being fixed we should go "Suse way" and add top-level input_dev class and merge input changes. Hovewer there will be compatibility issues with current installation (as there will be compatibility problems once we fix driver core but I'd rather force users to upgrade once)... 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. -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------- 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