Re: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd)

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 12:18:34 EST


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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