On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:54:06PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 21:48, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The existing links have names beginning with "ep_". You are removing > > them anyway (which might cause problems > > The directories should have the name now, that the symlink had before. > > > Regardless, there's no name clash because the new > > name begins with "ep%d". > > Right, but they would clash if we add them all to the usb bus, because > they are not unique across multiple devices, and would all end up in a > single directory: /sys/bus/usb/devices/*. > > That's why I asked, in case we are free to define a name, we might > want to give it a unique one right away, but I expect the symlinks > have been there for a reason. They were there because I didn't want to drop them if some userspace tool was depending on them. I don't think that's the case anymore, so we can drop them now. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
