Re: [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 9/16/05, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > I'll try fix the patch I posted last night (that implements the above,
> > or at least what Kay described with sub-devices residing under their
> > parent devices and symlinked into their classes), I believe it could
> > also be used for block, so it will be like:
> >
> > .../block/
> > |-- devices
> > |   |-- sda
> > |   |   |-- device -> ../../../../
> > |   |   |-- sda1
> > |   |   |   |-- dev
> > |   |   |   `-- device -> ../../../../../block/partitions/sda1
> > |   |   |-- sda2
> > |   |   |   |-- dev
> > |   |   |   `-- device -> ../../../../../block/partitions/sda2
> > ...
> > `-- partitions
> >    |-- sda1 -> ../../../class/block/devices/sda/sda1
> >    |-- sda2 -> ../../../class/block/devices/sda/sda2
> 
> Nah, that's a mess.  I think the proposal I had would work for both
> input and block with a minimum of disruption.  Still don't know about
> video though, David said he would take some time this weekend to get me
> some feedback, which is good, as I have to get on a 14 hour plane ride
> soon...
> 

You have to adjust udev to accept mouseX being not on /sys/class/input
level anyway so disruption is still here.

-- 
Dmitry
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