From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267483AbUHJP6N (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:58:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267474AbUHJP6N (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:58:13 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:27068 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267480AbUHJP5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:57:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:57:01 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Alan Cox Cc: dsaxena@plexity.net, greg@kroah.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Remove spaces from PCI IDE pci_driver.name field Message-ID: <20040810155701.GB21534@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20040810001316.GA7292@plexity.net> <1092096699.14934.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040810021209.GA10495@plexity.net> <1092138774.16979.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1092138774.16979.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug-10 2004, Tue, 12:52 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > Files w/o spaces look better and is easier to work with if running > > from cmd line, but if we ignore the "prettyness" issue, we should at > > least try to be consistent. Either we have spaces and _all_ driver > > names are in the format "xxx IDE", "xxx i2c", etc, or we don't allow > > space at all. > Any command line tool has to be robust for space handling anyway. Sure, but while with a GUI you can click on almost anything, on the command line spaces in filenames have always been a real pain in the ass, so let's not pretend otherwise. -- Tomas Szepe