On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> and the device node of the same device by looking up:
>> /dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min>
> Do we really need to expose this in /dev/? Why not put this in
> /dev/.udev/ or some other hidden directory?
Because it's not for udev itself, it does not use it. It's a public
interface, and the counterpart to the /sys/dev/ directory. Users can
retrieve the device name of a device without the need to use any
library, or run a program like udevadm.
Thanks,
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
