Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:02:25 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] uevent: handle duplicate uevent_var keys properly |
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Kay Sievers wrote: > Not sure if I understand that correctly. Remember, that there is a > symlink "subsystem" at each device, and udev, HAL, DeviceKit reads it. > If the uevent environment key "SUBSYSTEM" does not match the symlink > target, things will break horribly. So no device can be a member of > class "cuse" but carry a SUBSYSTEM value of a different class. > > If that is how it works, I guess that must be solved differently, by > hooking into the subsystem code and create "virtual devices" at the > original class they fake, instead of their own "cuse" class. Possibly > by making cuse a "bus", and use the cuse device as a parent for the > "real" class device.
For OSS emulation, it didn't really matter. For cases where it matters, I think easier path to take would be let the userland emulation set up a directory containing pseudo files and just override DEVPATH to it. Would that work?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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