Re: [git pull] Input updates for 3.5-rc0

Linus Torvalds
2012-05-24T21:07:52Z

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was concerned about the _next_ device (the one that will be created
> the moment I plug in the tablet back into the same port) having exact
> same name as the one that is half dead and clashing in sysfs and
> elsewhere. We used to have issues with this.

Ok, that's certainly a valid concern.

It's still - I think - really sad/wrong that the device name is then
so useless than the drivers end up basically not using it.

Linus