[ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:55:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> No, ick, why would you want that?
> 
> Just look at the "dev" file in sysfs, which shows the major:minor
> number.
> 
> Or just look at the directory that you are in, and that's almost always
> the /dev node name.
> 
> For example, /sys/block/sda/sda1/ is /dev/sda1.
> /sys/class/tty/ttyS1 is /dev/ttyS1.
> 
> It's usually not that difficult to do the mapping :)
 
But it's wrong to rely on it API-wise. 

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs