Re: udev.rules.devfs + symlinks & a question

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:02:51AM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:14:49AM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > 
> > > it would be nice to name all devices acoring to their class,
> > > not according to the bus they are conected to, but this is
> > > obviously pretty interesting to implement from userspace
> > 
> > That wouldn't be that hard, but remember, all block devices are of class
> > "block", which is what I don't think you want :)
> 
> right,
> i ment "type"
> 
> but except scsi i get only this :
> 
> [svetljo@svetljo tmp]$ find /sys -name "type"
> /sys/class/net/sit0/type
> /sys/class/net/eth2/type
> /sys/class/net/eth1/type
> /sys/class/net/eth0/type
> /sys/class/net/lo/type

But what do you mean by "type"?  That's what all of the different
subdirectories in /sys/class are for.  Showing you that those are all
devices of different types, grouped together.  Block is the only one not
located in this place (historical reasons, combined with some
limitations in the driver class code, will be fixed in 2.7)

thanks,

greg k-h


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