Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:03:03 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd)
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:52:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > Hm, with the 006 release, what do you find lacking in udev?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I am guessing its more driver support, etc.  Input devices for
> > > instance do not seem to have any sysfs support yet,
> > 
> > Yes, we do need better driver support.  But that's nothing that udev
> > itself can do :)
> > 
> > I have a number of patches pending for 2.6.1 that will add more driver
> > support for sysfs.
> > 
> What drivers did you convert? sysfs-for-inputs would
> be *very* welcome.

I have patches for the memory devices, all sound drivers (ALSA and OSS),
frame buffer devices, and misc devices in my linuxusb.bkbits.net/usb-2.5
tree.  Hanna Linder is working on the input sysfs patches, and has
posted some work in the past.

thanks,

greg k-h
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