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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:38:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226173804.GA16095@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030226171157.GF8369@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Allow slashes ('/') within a DM device name, but not at the beginning.
> 
> Devfs will automatically create all necessary sub-directories if a name
> with embedded slashes is registered.  [Kevin Corry]

Does this interact with the block device name representation in sysfs?
I don't think sysfs can handle names with '/' very well.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-26 17:05 device-mapper patchset 2.5.63-dm-1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] dm: ioctl interface wasn't dropping a table reference Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 21:04   ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 14:20     ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 14:36       ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 16:25         ` Roland Dreier
2003-02-27 16:34           ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 22:05           ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 17:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] dm: deregister the misc device before removing /dev/mapper Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: bug in error path for unknown target type Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:38   ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-02-26 18:17     ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 18:20       ` Greg KH
2003-02-26 17:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 2 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 18:14   ` Greg KH
2003-02-27  8:55     ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27  9:55     ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 16:17       ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:33         ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 17:47       ` Greg KH
2003-02-27  9:34   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-27 10:01     ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 12:55       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-26 17:13 ` [PATCH 8/8] dm: return correct error codes from dm_table_add_target() Joe Thornber

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