Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 24 May 2012 14:07:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: [git pull] Input updates for 3.5-rc0 |
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> 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
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