Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:42:28 -0400
> Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On systems with block devices containing slashes (virtual dasd, cciss,
> > etc), reiserfs will fail to initialize /proc/fs/reiserfs/<dev> due to
> > it being interpreted as a subdirectory. The generic block device code
> > changes the / to ! for use in the sysfs tree. This patch uses that
> > convention.
>
> Isn't it a bit dumb of us to be putting slashes in the device names anyway?
> It would be better, if poss, to alter dasd/cciss/etc and stop all these
> s@/@!@everywhere games.
A *lot* of people have been requesting more, not less, hierarchy in
the filenames in /dev, and by now there is plenty of history there,
too. The convention needs to be consistent and stable, though.
-hpa
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