From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scsi cdrom naming confusion; sr or scd?
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:41:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611051541.37283.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162735599.3160.91.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 15:06 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> and this is why it's wrong to make naming policy a kernel thing!
> Userspace is the right place to do this (and there I suspect the name
> will end up being /dev/cdrom)...... the kernel really shouldn't care at
> all what the name is.
I have to disagree. This precisely shows that the reverse is true.
This way the chance of having a default name guaranteed to work
is lost. If you want an alternate name, use a symlink.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-05 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-05 10:09 andrew
2006-11-05 11:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-05 14:00 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-11-05 14:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-05 14:41 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2006-11-05 16:38 ` Michael Tokarev
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