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Linux Plumbers fail

Posted Aug 25, 2011 18:03 UTC (Thu) by martin.langhoff (subscriber, #61417)
Parent article: The udev tail wags the dog

Thanks for covering this. My first reaction to Kay's argument was -- don't we have Linux Plumbers so these things get discussed and agreed upon?

There is a big push from the kernel side to consolidate platforms on using device-tree - see for example http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/08/15/enabling-dev... -- but perhaps device-tree has not been discussed at a plumbers conference.

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Linux Plumbers fail

Posted Aug 25, 2011 20:11 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

It most certainly has been discussed at an LPC.

The nodes in a device tree are supposed to be bound to devices in the Linux device model. udev will then receive the information from those nodes through uevents and sysfs, just as it does for devices that are discovered on a PCI or USB bus. In this case some nodes with useful information are not bound to anything in the device model, and that should be fixed.