Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:53:16 -0800 | From | Tim Wright <> | Subject | Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20 |
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:15:26AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: [My ramblings on device naming database deleted] > This comes up a lot with regards to USB devices too. One of the > usb-serial drivers (the edgeport driver) did something like this by > looking at the topology of the USB bus and where a specific device was > (it was also helped by unique serial numbers) and allowed the devices to > be assigned device nodes based on the topology and a small user space > program. I'm going to try to do this for all usb-serial devices in 2.5 > > I can see a scheme like this being very useful for all USB, FireWire, > scsi, etc type of devices. > > And no, I don't think that having some type of device naming "database" > is overkill and will eventually make it into parts of the kernel (the > "database" living outside of the kernel of course...) >
Well, if it sounds useful, I can look into putting up the design documentation (yes, shock, horror, there is some :-). It's pretty thorough and covers most of the issues involved, and hence might be a good talking point, even if we chose to implement quite differently.
Tim
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