On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:24 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 18:08 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:00 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > > Sure, but how would we handle the bugs we create by renaming: > > > /sys/class/input/mouse0/ > > > to > > > /sys/class/input/input!mouse0/ > > > > > Why would we have any bugs? > > Because we change many device names in sysfs to be different from today. > I don't think we can do that. Current HAL, and all sorts of simpler > stuff would just stop working. > Shouldn't HAL be using the DEVNAME from udev anyway? Otherwise it would break today if someone wrote a udev rule. Is there any particular reason that the kernel couldn't include DEVNAME in the uevent for things like mouse0? add /class/input/mouse0 DEVNAME=input/mouse0 Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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