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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:46:12 +0200
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name
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Andy Shevchenko, on mer. 14 juin 2017 15:36:30 +0300, wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 13:48:02 +0200, wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >> > Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 12:15:41 +0200, wrote:
> 
> >> And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this
> >> is not ok, sorry.
> >
> > So what is the solution?  Users would find it completely crazy to have
> > to provide major/minor numbers.
> 
> Shouldn't udev take care of major/minor and alike stuff in user space?

We want speakup to get initialized before udev etc., just like the early
console.

Samuel