Re: [PATCH] 14/18 support for partition labels in devfs

Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-05T17:11:12Z

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 07:50:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This patch adds a new feature to the partition code. It will automatically
> generate links in the device filesystem from the label name of a dasd to
> the device node. This is only needed if the device filesystem is used.

Sorry, a s390-only /dev/labels/ is not acceptable. There are more than
enough storage devices that can support labels. And even a generic
implementation should go into 2.5 first.