linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number

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Message-ID: <20170614124612.4padqb3ul2ter6pu@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:46:12 +0200
From:   Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        okash.khawaja@...il.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
        speakup@...ux-speakup.org, Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name
 to number

Andy Shevchenko, on mer. 14 juin 2017 15:36:30 +0300, wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 13:48:02 +0200, wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >> > Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 12:15:41 +0200, wrote:
> 
> >> And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this
> >> is not ok, sorry.
> >
> > So what is the solution?  Users would find it completely crazy to have
> > to provide major/minor numbers.
> 
> Shouldn't udev take care of major/minor and alike stuff in user space?

We want speakup to get initialized before udev etc., just like the early
console.

Samuel