From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753068Ab0I3Kbu (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:31:50 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34745 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558Ab0I3Kbt (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:31:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:56:16 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Marc - A. Dahlhaus" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames Message-ID: <20100930115616.633caf91@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4CA391B3.1030806@wol.de> <20100930103010.1a6a7785@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Followup-To: Kay Sievers X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org O> devices.txt is just wrong in some things, and the common userspace > usage pattern is much closer to be a 'standard' here than this file. > devices.txt should catch up here. The same is true for scdX vs. srX, > scdX nodes don't exist today, and srX is not at all deprecated, unlike > devices.txt states. devices.txt is the spec. > The kernel provided ISDN nodes never made sense for applications using > ISDN. Also the devices.txt node names, I've never seen anywhere else > than in devices.txt. Doesn't matter - changing them will cause regressions. If people want to rename them in userspace then fine, but changing the default names for device nodes is not something to do lightly. You'll break stuff for people who do follow the spec. So NAK, and that's with the devices@lanana.org keeper of the device name mappings hat on. Alan