From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:55:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092340343.22362.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040812170400.A2448@infradead.org>
On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 17:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
Greg okayed a pile of other related changes including some that were not
just white space to _ but changed the actual string. So you may want to
take it up with Greg rather than Pekka who is just filling in one that
was missed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-12 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 18:54 [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name Pekka Enberg
2004-08-12 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-12 19:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-08-12 19:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-12 21:33 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-08-15 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
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