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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:20:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226182031.GB16350@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03022612171202.05199@boiler>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:17:12PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:38, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > > Allow slashes ('/') within a DM device name, but not at the beginning.
> > >
> > > Devfs will automatically create all necessary sub-directories if a name
> > > with embedded slashes is registered.  [Kevin Corry]
> >
> > Does this interact with the block device name representation in sysfs?
> > I don't think sysfs can handle names with '/' very well.
> 
> This patch shouldn't affect DM's interaction with sysfs.
> 
> The names in sysfs are generated by the DM core, and are all called "dm-x", 
> where x is the device minor number.

Ok, but it sure would be nice to see the "name" in sysfs instead of the
minor number, right?  Just thinking of how this would affect my
much-out-of-date sysfs dm patches :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-26 17:05 device-mapper patchset 2.5.63-dm-1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] dm: ioctl interface wasn't dropping a table reference Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 21:04   ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 14:20     ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 14:36       ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 16:25         ` Roland Dreier
2003-02-27 16:34           ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 22:05           ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 17:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] dm: deregister the misc device before removing /dev/mapper Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: bug in error path for unknown target type Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:38   ` Greg KH
2003-02-26 18:17     ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 18:20       ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-02-26 17:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 2 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 18:14   ` Greg KH
2003-02-27  8:55     ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27  9:55     ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 16:17       ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:33         ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 17:47       ` Greg KH
2003-02-27  9:34   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-27 10:01     ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 12:55       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-26 17:13 ` [PATCH 8/8] dm: return correct error codes from dm_table_add_target() Joe Thornber

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