Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932422AbVJRHFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:05:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932424AbVJRHFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:05:51 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:52140 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932422AbVJRHFu (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:05:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:05:15 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kay Sievers Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, Vojtech Pavlik , Hannes Reinecke , Patrick Mochel , airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adam Belay Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work Message-ID: <20051018070515.GA12042@suse.de> References: <20051013020844.GA31732@kroah.com> <20051013105826.GA11155@vrfy.org> <20051014084554.GA19445@vrfy.org> <20051015150855.GA7625@vrfy.org> <20051017214430.GA5193@suse.de> <20051018060435.GA10622@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051018060435.GA10622@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1228 Lines: 29 On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:04:35PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:44:30PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > But, if you think we can't break userspace by adding nested class > > devices just yet, I agree, and can probably just put a symlink in > > /sys/class/input to the nested devices, which will make everything "just > > work". I'll try that out later tonight and let you all know how it > > goes. > > Below is a patch that does this for the event portion of input. Good > news is that the symlink shows up just fine in sysfs. Bad news is that > even with your previously posted patch, udev dies a horrible death. > > And udev dies today with the nested stuff too, so that's not good > either. Nevermind, that was due to the kernel oops, not udev. Kay, your original udev patch works just fine. What I don't see is why the existing udev release doesn't also work, now that I have the symlinks set up. I'll try to figure that one out too... thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/