Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755766Ab2EYBjh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 21:39:37 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:53961 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755377Ab2EYBjb (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 21:39:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:39:17 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 3.5-rc0 Message-ID: <20120525013917.GA22260@kroah.com> References: <20120524195851.GA15306@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524203647.GA16024@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524205952.GA16621@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20120524220105.GB18120@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 37 On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:05:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > > I'm open to ideas on what to change it to. ?A full sysfs path? > > A full sysfs path really looks pretty ugly, partly because we'd have > to really change all our naming (look at PCI devices now: they end up > looking like > > pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0 > > where that "0000:00" is duplicated because we wanted to make > dev_name() look nice). > > I think Dmitry's idea to stop when we hit the actual "physical" device > might just work in practice. So we'd show the dev_name() of the actual > piece of hardware, and then perhaps one or two "layering" details on > top of it. And it wouldn't change anything for the current common case > where people tend to pass in the physical device as-is. Ok, the "trick" is going to be to figure out where the "physical" device is in the parent chain (look at the scsi craziness for an example of that.) I'm on the road for the next week or so, with lots of international plane rides with time to kill, so I'll try to figure something out on them and post it. 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/