[ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

Vojtech Pavlik linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:47:41 +0200


On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:52:52PM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:

> Coming to think of it, to solve the dev->sys direction, maybe we
> should have symlinks like the following?
> /sys/dev/8/0 -> /sys/block/sda
> /sys/dev/11/0 -> /sys/block/sr0
> /sys/dev/116/24 -> /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c

Since you can have more nodes in /dev with the same node numbers, and
this actually is useful (for granting more users/groups access to the
devices in question), this is not going to fly.

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs