On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:53:32PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:53:14AM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
>>   Ok, heres an updated device node naming guide.  Thanks to everybody for
>>  correcting it.  Ideally we'd want the devices to show up the same with
>>  devfs.  So keep an eye out for deviations, so that they can be fixed.
>> 
>>   node          c/b   major:minor       owner:group     permitions
>>   ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>   mustek        char  10:171            root:video?     0660
>>   input/js#  char  13:0-31           root:root       0660
>>   input/mouse#       char  13:32-62          root:root       0660
>>   input/mice char  13:62 (Mix mode)  root:root       0660
>>   input/event#       char  13:64-95          root:root       0660
>>   usb/ttyACM#   char  166:0-31          root:dialout    0660
>>   usb/usblp#    char  180:0-15          root:lp         0660
>
>I think /dev/usb/lp# would be better, notice no other USB device nodes
>don't have the additional 'usb' prefix - what does everyone think?

I agree.  The only time the 'usb' prefix should be tacked on is if
the device sits in /dev and would conflict with an already existing
device.  An example obviously being /dev/lp0 and /dev/usblp0.  Since
we are going to stick it in /dev/usb/, it should be lp#.

-Harold
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