On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:39:16AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 00:26, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:03:52PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> > names
> >> >
> >> > you rename some devices and disagree with devices.txt
> >> >
> >> > rawctl -> raw/rawctl
> >>
> >> The tools use that, if I remember. Someone maintaining the tools should
> >> tell, devices.txt is pretty unreliable sometimes.
> >
> > The upstream raw(8) command supports /dev/rawctl and also
> > /dev/raw/rawctl. I think it makes more sense to use raw/rawctl when
> > you have all your raw devices in raw/ subdirectory (e.g. /dev/raw/raw<N>).
>
> The raw tool looks for /dev/rawctl first and the fallback to
> /dev/raw/rawctl is named DEVFS_*. Should we turn that order around and
> remove the devfs notion from the raw tool and let udev create a
> dev/raw/rawctl node?
Yeah. Fixed, committed and pushed.
$ strace -e open ./raw
open("/dev/raw/rawctl", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/rawctl", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
I have also removed the #ifdef OLD_RAW_DEVS (/dev/raw<N>) junk.
BTW, it would be nice to refresh devices.txt according to your latest
changes in udev.
Karel
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