On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:40:09AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > 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? Yes, LSB specifies that LANANA is the standard. > 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. Great, patches accepted :) good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
