[Mesa-dev] [RFC] loader: libudev vs sysfs vs libdrm

[Axel Davy]

On 09/07/2015 15:33, Emil Velikov wrote :
>
> Yakes forgot about that one. From a quick look we can (I know it feels
> durty) use readlink(
> /sys/dev/char/$(major):$(minor)).
>
> Everything seems to be there - bus type and exact location of the
> device on the bus. It's limited to sysfs users, but they are more than
> the libudev ones (perhaps not by much). How does that sound ?
>
> Cheers,
> Emil
>
The idea behind using udev for the tag was that arbitrary tag could be used,
especially to identify usb devices.

Ofc another solution could be used.

Yours,

Axel