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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
	airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:05:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051018070515.GA12042@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018060435.GA10622@suse.de>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:04:35PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:44:30PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > But, if you think we can't break userspace by adding nested class
> > devices just yet, I agree, and can probably just put a symlink in
> > /sys/class/input to the nested devices, which will make everything "just
> > work".  I'll try that out later tonight and let you all know how it
> > goes.
> 
> Below is a patch that does this for the event portion of input.  Good
> news is that the symlink shows up just fine in sysfs.  Bad news is that
> even with your previously posted patch, udev dies a horrible death.
> 
> And udev dies today with the nested stuff too, so that's not good
> either.

Nevermind, that was due to the kernel oops, not udev.

Kay, your original udev patch works just fine.  What I don't see is why
the existing udev release doesn't also work, now that I have the
symlinks set up.  I'll try to figure that one out too...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-18  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20051013014147.235668000@echidna.kroah.org>
2005-10-13  2:08 ` [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:10   ` Greg KH
2005-10-13 23:38     ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-13  2:10   ` [patch 1/8] Driver Core: add the ability for class_device structures to be nested Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:10   ` [patch 2/8] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create() Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:10   ` [patch 3/8] Driver Core: document struct class_device properly Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:10   ` [patch 4/8] input: register the input class device sooner Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:10   ` [patch 5/8] input: export input_dev_class so that input drivers can use it Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:10   ` [patch 6/8] input: move the input class devices under their new input_dev devices Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:11   ` [patch 7/8] input: remove the input_class structure, as it is unused Greg KH
2005-10-13  2:11   ` [patch 8/8] input: rename input_dev_class to input_class to be correct Greg KH
2005-10-13  6:38   ` [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work Vojtech Pavlik
2005-10-13 21:21     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-13 10:58   ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-13 21:35     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-13 23:37       ` Hannes Reinecke
2005-10-14  8:45       ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-14 12:14         ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-14 12:49           ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-14 13:49             ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17 10:02           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-10-18  5:13             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-14 17:02         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-15 15:08           ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17  5:41             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-17 21:44             ` Greg KH
2005-10-17 21:54               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-17 23:26                 ` Adam Belay
2005-10-18  0:03                   ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17 23:24               ` Adam Belay
2005-10-17 23:44                 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-18  5:26                 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18  7:18                   ` Adam Belay
2005-10-18  7:54                     ` Greg KH
2005-10-18  8:34                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-10-18 15:08                     ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-18 15:41                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-18  6:04               ` Greg KH
2005-10-18  7:05                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-10-18  7:35                   ` Greg KH
2005-10-17  9:26         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-12-01 18:59         ` Patrick Mochel
2005-10-14  9:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-14 16:36     ` Dmitry Torokhov

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