From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268597AbUHLQQ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:16:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268600AbUHLQQZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:16:25 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:9709 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268597AbUHLQPu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:15:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name From: Pekka Enberg To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040812170400.A2448@infradead.org> References: <1092336877.7433.1.camel@localhost> <20040812170400.A2448@infradead.org> Message-Id: <1092338360.7433.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:19:20 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:54:38PM +0000, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > This patch removes whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name that appears in the > > sysfs directory. It is against 2.6.7. On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > You jnow that this breaks every tool that knew of the names so far? E.g. > Debian mkinitrd (now has a patch to deal with both the whitespace and > non-whitespace variants) and probably quite a few installers out there. Sorry, I did not know that. I only booted to my Gentoo box with it. I saw similar patches go into other PCI drivers which is why I thought it was appropriate. Pekka