linux-kernel - Re: Generic battery interface

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Message-ID: <20060730114741.GC4898@suse.cz>
Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:47:41 +0200
From:	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>
To:	Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic battery interface

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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
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