From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:00:42 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3m8ra$i9d$3@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200302272313.PAA11724@baldur.yggdrasil.com
In article <200302272313.PAA11724@baldur.yggdrasil.com>,
Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> devfs, a simpler approach might be to convert your non-devfs
> system to use devfs-style names, at least for the devices that
> are needed for booting (/dev/vc/0, /dev/vc/1... for virtual
> consoles, /dev/discs/disc0/disc for the first whole hard disk,
> /dev/discs/discs0/part1 for the first partition of the first
> disk, /dev/floppy/0).
If you're making it not 100% compatible anyway, now is the time
to do away with that horrible 'disc' spelling ;). 'disk' is a
harddisk or floppy disk, 'disc' is for compact disc (try Google
on both spellings and you'll see that the world agrees ..).
Just do s/disc/disk/g in devfs_register().
Mike.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-27 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-27 23:13 Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink Adam J. Richter
2003-02-28 0:00 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2003-02-28 1:37 ` Andrew Walrond
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2003-02-28 3:14 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-28 4:03 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-28 8:08 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-02-28 12:50 ` Helge Hafting
2003-02-28 2:49 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-26 2:47 miltonm
2003-02-25 10:23 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-25 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-26 0:51 ` Dave Jones
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