From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use .devfs_name in struct miscdevice
Date: 30 Apr 2003 11:59:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8p6ek$tn2$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030430173315.A4057@lst.de
Followup to: <20030430173315.A4057@lst.de>
By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There's three drivers in the tree that workaround the suboptimal
> devfs name choice of the misc device layer (/dev/misc/<foo>) using
> devfs_mk_symlink. Switch them to set miscdev.devfs_name instead
> to get the right name from the very beginning.
>
Understatement of the week :)
-hpa
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2003-04-30 15:33 [PATCH] use .devfs_name in struct miscdevice Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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