Re: Input sysbsystema and hotplug

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:07:51PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to convert input systsem to play nicely with sysfs and I am
> having trouble with hotplug agent. The old hotplug mechanism was using
> "input" as agent/subsystem name, unfortunately I can't simply use "input"
> class because when Greg added class_simple support to input handlers
> (evdev, mousedev, joydev, etc) he used that name.

Why not?  What's wrong with using the existing input class?  I was
hopeing it would get flushed out into something "real" someday.  All you
have to do is keep the "dev" stuff in there somewhere and udev will be
happy.

> /sys/class/input---input0
> 		 |
> 		 |-input1
> 		 |
> 		 |-input2
> 		 |
> 		 |-mouse---mouse0
> 		 |	 |
> 		 |	 |-mouse1
> 		 |	 |
> 		 |	 --mice
> 		 |
> 		 |-event---event0
> 			 |
> 			 |-event1
> 			 |
> 			 |-event2
> 
> where inputX are class devices, mouse and event are subclasses of input
> class and mouseX and eventX are again class devices.

Yes, lots of people want class devices to have children.  Unfortunatly
they don't provide patches with their requests :)

thanks,

greg k-h