> On Sunday 09 September 2007 19:03, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On 9/8/07, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > However, the change that broke id_path of udev is that
> > > /sys/class/input/event5/device is now a symlink to the inputX directory
> > > instead of being the same as the device symlink in inputX directory,
> > > i.e. to ../../../devices/platform/pcspkr in this case.
> > >
> > > Udev id_path uses that directory to construct the ID_PATH variable.
> > > Should the sysfs structure be reverted or should udev be adapted to
> > > handle traversing /device symlink twice? I think the former, as there
> > > should be considerably more time to adapt udev for coming changes in sysfs.
> >
> > Udev's path_id script is too dumb to follow the "device" link of
> > stacked class devices in the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y layout. Does
> > this change fix it for you?
> >
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b1ac36ff5e3756cef...
> >
>
> Hmm, fixing udev is good but users will not get the change in time. I think we
> need to adjust SYSFS_DEPRECATED code to produce old results. Something like the
> patch below. I wonder what Greg would think...
