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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:22:41AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 01:43 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't
> > > have any relation with the name of the device node.
> >
> > It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev
>
> ... and for udev-enabled systems, it's the name of the device node to be
> created.

Looks like people never learn. We had horrible problems with devfs because
it decided to overload existing name fields, but the udev brigade does the same
idiocy again..

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