From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268794AbUHLVBV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:01:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268786AbUHLVBU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:01:20 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:47573 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268787AbUHLVBD (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:01:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040812170400.A2448@infradead.org> References: <1092336877.7433.1.camel@localhost> <20040812170400.A2448@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1092340343.22362.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:55:40 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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