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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:14:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFD] Device Renaming Mechanism
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To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>, James.Bottomley@suse.de, rwheeler@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com, mdomsch@dell.com

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:00:08AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> I have read the other mails, but I would love to know what Greg and Kay
> think about supporting automatic renaming in the case where the system
> *actually told you the preferred name* in such a table. Perhaps we can
> discuss this in Cambridge this week.

Perhaps you should look in the archives where I have stated my position
about this a number of times[1] :)

thanks,

greg k-h

[1] Do it in userspace