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Bug#606895: udevd-work[358]: kernel-provided name 'uinput' and NAME= 'input/uinput' disagree



On Dec 12, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> > The name is correct, the kernel name change should be backported.
> Please explain (1) why udev knows better than the kernel what the
> canonical name is and
The name has always been input/uinput, but in the last year udev
deprecated changing the device names and instead started to rely on the
kernel providing the correct ones. This driver was not fixed yet at the
time 2.6.32 was released.

> (2) if it does, why it shouldn't change it quietly.
It does, this is just a warning.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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