G'day all,

Can anyone enlighten me on the correct place for normal char device nodes for
the USB sub-system? In particular, should the default be /dev/usb/?

The reason why I ask is that the part of the patch for the hiddev entries that
affected devices.txt got dropped by Alan (probably because it needs to go to
hpa). I assumed that the device nodes should be /dev/usb/hiddev0 through to
/dev/usb/hiddev15, although some of the sample code assumes that they will be
/dev/usb/hiddev/hiddev0 through to /dev/usb/hiddev/hiddev15. The devfs code
seems to assume the latter too.

I know that there was some discussion about more hierachial /dev some time
ago, but I am not sure _how_ hierachial Linus wanted.

This is starting to become important, since user space code that uses this
(including a patch for NUT to support USB UPSen) is getting fairly close to
release, and I really don't want to have to search both locations. Also, I'd
hate to see distributions split over such a minor issue. I am happy to patch
either way, but I'd like the policy first.

Thoughts?

Brad

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