From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:22:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123978962.13656.21.camel@sponge.fungus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050813234322.GA30563@suse.de>
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On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 01:43 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't
> > have any relation with the name of the device node.
>
> It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev
... and for udev-enabled systems, it's the name of the device node to be
created.
./Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-13 21:36 [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-13 21:53 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-13 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-13 22:30 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-29 10:32 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-08-29 11:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-13 23:15 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-13 23:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-13 23:43 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-14 0:22 ` Henrik Brix Andersen [this message]
2005-08-14 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-18 14:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-14 3:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-14 9:03 ` Olaf Hering
2005-08-14 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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