Re: A modest proposal...

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:41:45AM -0700, Charles Duffy wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> I notice that, at present, several of the handlers (such as evdev)
> assign device numbers independantly. Hence, /dev/input/event2 and
> /dev/input/mouse2 may not refer to the same device, and (similarly)
> may not refer to the device dubbed input2 on initialization.
> 
> Might it not make for a somewhat more user-friendly world to have
> handlers use dev->number for determining the minor number for each
> connected device?
> 
> This would also make a table of connected input devices somewhat more
> useful.

Sounds reasonable to start searching for free numbers at the dev->number
position. What others think?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs