On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:26:00PM -0700, Mike Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:35:50PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > AFAIK there is no requirement in input subsystem that devices should be
> > created under /dev/input. When devfs is activated they are created there
> > by default, but that's it.
>
> Things which accept a path to an event file as an argument will work
> just fine. But anything which tries autodiscovery HAS to be able to find
> the device nodes. Think directfb, most (but not all) of the X patches,
> any user-space driver that wants to find the hardware it owns, etc.
>
> This illustrates nicely my reasons for preferring devfs.
>
> 1) Predictable, canonical device names are a Good Thing.
And impossible for the kernel to generate given hotpluggable devices.
> 2) If you accept that, exporting the device names from the kernel is the
> most sensible way to do it.
I don't accept it, and neither does anyone else. See my previous posts
about devfs and udev for more details, I'm not going to go into this
again...
Good luck,
greg k-h
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