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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use .devfs_name in struct miscdevice
Date: 30 Apr 2003 11:59:32 -0700
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Followup to:  <20030430173315.A4057@lst.de>
By author:    Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There's three drivers in the tree that workaround the suboptimal
> devfs name choice of the misc device layer (/dev/misc/<foo>) using
> devfs_mk_symlink.    Switch them to set miscdev.devfs_name instead
> to get the right name from the very beginning.
> 

Understatement of the week :)

	-hpa
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