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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys to /dev node name translation
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:08:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519080829.GO4834@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555A3E16.6090003@suse.cz>

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:31:34PM +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> linux/drivers/base/core.c: device_get_devnode() defines a translation of
> '!' in sysfs nodes to '/' in /dev nodes. The same translation has to be
> done to properly support device nodes with slash (e. g. device nodes of
> cciss driver and several other drivers).

Strange feature.

> +	/* replace '!' in the name with '/', see
> +	 * linux/drivers/base/core.c: device_get_devnode() */
> +	while ((s = strchr(name, '!')))
> +		s[0] = '/';


 What about to add small inline function sysfs_fix_devname() to
 include/sysfs.h ?

    Karel


-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-18 19:31 [PATCH] Fix /sys to /dev node name translation Stanislav Brabec
2015-05-19  8:08 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-05-19 12:35   ` Stanislav Brabec
2015-05-21 11:11     ` Karel Zak
2015-05-22 13:52       ` Stanislav Brabec
2015-05-25 16:21         ` Stanislav Brabec

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