Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > > >I don't understand your patch and cannot support it as it is written. > >Perhaps you can call me and explain it on the phone. > > > I seriously can't tell if you're deliberately trying to be difficult or > not. It's a simple "replace / with ! before sending the name to procfs." > > Reiserfs requests that a procfs directory called > /proc/fs/reiserfs/<blockdev> be created. Some block devices contain > slashes, so with cciss/c123 it attempts to create a directory called > /proc/fs/reiserfs/cciss/c123, but cciss/ doesn't exist, shouldn't, and > never will. Why not check to see if it does not exist, and create it if not, as needed, and skip the !'s....? > In order to create a single path component, "cciss/c123" > becomes "cciss!c123." This is consistent with how sysfs does it now. For > a real example, change the "-" in device mapper block names to "/" and > see what happens. > > Regardless, it's already been checked into mainline as change > 6fbe82a952790c634ea6035c223a01a81377daf1. > > -Jeff > > -- > Jeff Mahoney > SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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