Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933583Ab2EXVHw (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 17:07:52 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:35228 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754005Ab2EXVHu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 17:07:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120524205952.GA16621@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20120524083216.GD10562@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524180154.GA15036@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524195851.GA15306@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524203647.GA16024@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524205952.GA16621@core.coreip.homeip.net> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:07:29 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hbyjogQh4XaZ5AB90sImiWDJKAA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 3.5-rc0 To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 19 On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I was concerned about the _next_ device (the one that will be created > the moment I plug in the tablet back into the same port) having exact > same name as the one that is half dead and clashing in sysfs and > elsewhere. We used to have issues with this. Ok, that's certainly a valid concern. It's still - I think - really sad/wrong that the device name is then so useless than the drivers end up basically not using it. Linus -- 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/