On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:29 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:06:46PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:58 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > > On Aug 11, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Where does the kernel not give the "right" name today?
> > > >
> > > > For a start:
> > >
> > > The large majority of those are because you want a subdirectory to make
> > > things pretty. The kernel can't do anything about that.
> > >
> > Why not?
> >
> > We have the source code to the kernel.
> >
> > The patch to allow "/" in device names, as exported to user space, must
> > be trivial?
> >
> > udev already converts "!" to "/", so we could just use that?
>
> Because that would break the LSB naming standard of these devices,
> making things backwardly incompatible. Is that something you want to
> push through lkml on your own just to alleviate a single line in a udev
> file?
>
What LSB naming standard?
Do you mean the LANANA Linux Allocated Devices list?
In which case, I humbly submit the following quote:
13 char Input core
0 = /dev/input/js0 First joystick
1 = /dev/input/js1 Second joystick
...
32 = /dev/input/mouse0 First mouse
33 = /dev/input/mouse1 Second mouse
...
63 = /dev/input/mice Unified mouse
64 = /dev/input/event0 First event queue
65 = /dev/input/event1 Second event queue
Right now, Linux names these wrongly in the kernel.
My patches would simply restore Linux to match the naming standard :-)
Scott
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