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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:03:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120170303.GJ26720@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031120125228.GC432@openzaurus.ucw.cz>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:52:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > Hm, with the 006 release, what do you find lacking in udev?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I am guessing its more driver support, etc.  Input devices for
> > > instance do not seem to have any sysfs support yet,
> > 
> > Yes, we do need better driver support.  But that's nothing that udev
> > itself can do :)
> > 
> > I have a number of patches pending for 2.6.1 that will add more driver
> > support for sysfs.
> > 
> What drivers did you convert? sysfs-for-inputs would
> be *very* welcome.

I have patches for the memory devices, all sound drivers (ALSA and OSS),
frame buffer devices, and misc devices in my linuxusb.bkbits.net/usb-2.5
tree.  Hanna Linder is working on the input sysfs patches, and has
posted some work in the past.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-20 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-19 21:32 [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd) Adrian Bunk
2003-11-19 22:14 ` Greg KH
2003-11-19 23:12   ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-11-19 23:26     ` Greg KH
2003-11-20 12:52       ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 17:03         ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-11-20 22:24           ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 22:28           ` driver model for inputs Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 22:48             ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 22:55               ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 23:18                 ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 23:54                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-21  0:35                     ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 23:09               ` viro

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