From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:06:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:06:19 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:18188 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:06:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3B02DD79.7B840A5B@transmeta.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:05:13 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Gooch CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Alan Cox , Ingo Oeser , Linus Torvalds , Neil Brown , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <200105152141.f4FLff300686@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200105161822.f4GIMo509185@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3B02D6AB.E381D317@transmeta.com> <200105162001.f4GK18X10128@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Gooch wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't > > > match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of > > > code I actually meant was: > > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) { > > > > This is still a really bad idea. You don't want to tie this kind of > > things to the name. > > Why do you think it's a bad idea? > Because you are now, once again, tying two things that are completely and utterly unrelated: device classification and device name. It breaks every time someone comes out with a new device which is "kind of like an old device, but not really," like CD-writers (which was kind-of-like WORM, kind-of-like CD-ROM) and DVD (kind-of-like CD)... -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt