On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > b) kernel names remain the same, include DEVNAME in environment > > > > ACTION=add > > DEVPATH=/class/input/mice > > DEVNAME=/dev/input/mice > > SUBSYSTEM=input > > MAJOR=13 > > MINOR=63 > > > > Pro: fixes sysfs and compatibility, attractive > > Con: udev needs patching, extra macro in kernel > > > > In this case, I would also argue we need devname in sysfs. There are > enough tools out there who want to be able to correlate sysfs and devices. Maybe better than nothing, yeah, but the basic /dev name is in a lot of cases not too interesting, but the symlinks are, and they will not be known by the kernel. Kay -- 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
