linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: logitech-dj: issue udev change event on device connection

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.2003210103540.19500@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Sat, 21 Mar 2020 01:05:59 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...-t.net>
cc:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Mario Limonciello <superm1@...il.com>,
        Filipe Laíns <lains@...hlinux.org>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...hat.com>,
        Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: logitech-dj: issue udev change event on device
 connection

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> > Then we would need to support that attribute forever. IMHO the best
> > option is to just make a uname call and check the kernel version, with
> > the code marked to be removed in the future when kernels older then
> > $version are no longer something we want to support.

Oh, this doesn't work *at all* with distro kernels backporting everything 
that passess by to kernels with major versions looking years old.

I (as one of the "guilty ones" with my distro hat on) am not at all saying 
it's perfect, but that's the way it is.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs