Re: [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name

[Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>]

On Aug 12 2004, at 20:55, Alan Cox was caught saying:
> On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 17:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:54:38PM +0000, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > This patch removes whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name that appears in the
> > > sysfs directory. It is against 2.6.7.
> > 
> > You jnow that this breaks every tool that knew of the names so far?  E.g.
> > Debian mkinitrd (now has a patch to deal with both the whitespace and
> > non-whitespace variants) and probably quite a few installers out there.
> 
> Greg okayed a pile of other related changes including some that were not
> just white space to _ but changed the actual string. So you may want to
> take it up with Greg rather than Pekka who is just filling in one that
> was missed

Not having touched installer code, can someone enlighten me on
why the installer would break with 's/ /_' or any other change
to driver name?

~Deepak

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