From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@wol.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:30:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100930103010.1a6a7785@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA391B3.1030806@wol.de>
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:21:23 +0200
"Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@wol.de> wrote:
> capi device names should get changed to what userspace expects.
If userspace isn't following the spec (which has been the spec for many
years) then thats not our problem.
> Without this change recent udev versions can't produce working device
> nodes as the capi control device node name "capi" collides with the
> "capi" directory under which userspace expects to get the application
> device nodes. This also fixes the Documentation.
The documentation isn't broken, the documentation *is* the reference.
NAK. Fix udev.
We have a spec for a reason, if some distro didn't follow it then that's
up to them but they can sort out their own udev.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-29 19:21 Marc - A. Dahlhaus
2010-09-30 9:30 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-09-30 10:08 ` Kay Sievers
2010-09-30 10:56 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-30 10:37 ` Marc - A. Dahlhaus
2010-09-30 10:50 ` Kay Sievers
2010-09-30 11:29 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-30 12:50 ` Marc - A. Dahlhaus
2010-09-30 17:35 ` Olivier Galibert
2010-09-30 19:20 ` Kay Sievers
2010-10-01 8:02 ` [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames v2 Marc - A. Dahlhaus
2010-10-01 8:36 ` [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames Marc - A. Dahlhaus
2010-10-01 9:20 ` Kay Sievers
2010-09-30 11:35 ` Alan Cox
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