From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932289AbWG3Lrq (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:47:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932286AbWG3Lrq (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:47:46 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:48612 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932288AbWG3Lro (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:47:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:47:41 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Shem Multinymous Cc: Greg KH , Dmitry Torokhov , "Brown, Len" , Pavel Machek , Matthew Garrett , kernel list , linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Generic battery interface Message-ID: <20060730114741.GC4898@suse.cz> References: <41840b750607271332q5dea0848y2284b30a48f78ea7@mail.gmail.com> <20060727232427.GA4907@suse.cz> <41840b750607271727q7efc0bb2q706a17654004cbbc@mail.gmail.com> <20060728074202.GA4757@suse.cz> <41840b750607280819t71f55ea7off89aa917421cc33@mail.gmail.com> <20060730085500.GB17759@kroah.com> <41840b750607300252w445974b1udedf1a67114d1580@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41840b750607300252w445974b1udedf1a67114d1580@mail.gmail.com> X-Bounce-Cookie: It's a lemon tree, dear Watson! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:52:52PM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote: > Coming to think of it, to solve the dev->sys direction, maybe we > should have symlinks like the following? > /sys/dev/8/0 -> /sys/block/sda > /sys/dev/11/0 -> /sys/block/sr0 > /sys/dev/116/24 -> /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c Since you can have more nodes in /dev with the same node numbers, and this actually is useful (for granting more users/groups access to the devices in question), this is not going to fly. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs