From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:47:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050814084715.GA15668@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123978962.13656.21.camel@sponge.fungus>
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:22:41AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 01:43 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't
> > > have any relation with the name of the device node.
> >
> > It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev
>
> ... and for udev-enabled systems, it's the name of the device node to be
> created.
Looks like people never learn. We had horrible problems with devfs because
it decided to overload existing name fields, but the udev brigade does the same
idiocy again..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-14 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-13 21:36 [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-13 21:53 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-13 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-13 22:30 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-29 10:32 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-29 11:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-13 23:15 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-13 23:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-13 23:43 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-14 0:22 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-14 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-08-18 14:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-14 3:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-14 9:03 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-14 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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