Why shouldn't it go into
/dev/hid/hiddevNN
there is a possibility (however remote...;-) that HID may be extended to buses
besides USB at some point...
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Brad Hards wrote:
>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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