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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:07:28 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: IDs
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:55:00AM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> 
> The sysfs tree does not contain device nodes.

And that will remain true.

> Do you plan a user space utility that figures out that
> the ID "SHP      CD-Writer+ 8200 [" belongs to /dev/hdd
> which also is /dev/sr0?

Yes.  Well, at least I plan on creating such a utility once more of the
kernel is converted over to using sysfs :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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