From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Dalecki Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:36:31 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D124ADF.6030103@evision-ventures.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , Kurt Garloff , Linux kernel list , Linux SCSI list U=BFytkownik Linus Torvalds napisa=B3: >=20 > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: >=20 >>> /devices/disks/disk0 -> ../../pci0/00:02.0/02:1f.0/03:07.0/disk0 >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^ You notice the redundancy in naming here= :-). >=20 >=20 > I'd rather have redundancy than have horrible names like just "0", th= ank > you very much. >=20 > It takes up no space, all the dentries are virtual anyway, and a dent= ry > embeds the storage for the first n characters (n ~16 or something lik= e > that). >=20 >=20 >>Boah the chierachies are already deep enough. /devices/net/eth@XX >>will cut it. >=20 >=20 > There is _no_ excuse for being terse. Yes indeed: ls DIR cp COPY mv REANME cat TYPE Note: the VMS stuff was even longer. You ever used the "shell" there? > Also, never EVER use special characters like "@" unless there is _rea= son_ > to use them. I don't see any reason to make a filesystem look like pe= rl. The reaons is that it is making the splitup betwen the enumeration and naming part very easy. Not just for scripts but for C code as well. Numbers get user quite frequently for versioning as well. And I tought the above should be mainly used by programs? > Please use sane names like "disknnn" over insane cryptographically se= cure > filesystem contents like "sd@nnn". I'm so used to sd@ :-). Don't invent where you can borrow - or you will go the esperanto way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html