Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 17:12:22 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > > Alan Cox writes: > > > Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't > > > match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of > > > code I actually meant was: > > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) { > > > > drivers/kitchen/bluetooth/vegerack/cd > > > > its the cabbage dicer still .. > > No, because it violates the standard. Just as we can define a major > number to have a specific meaning, we can define a name in the devfs > namespace to have a specific meaning. > > Yes, it's broken if someone writes a cabbage dicer driver and uses > "cd" as the leaf node name for devfs. > > Yes, it's broken if someone writes a cabbage dicer driver and uses > the same major as the IDE CD-ROM or SCSI CD-ROM drivers. >
But unlike the latter case, your case isn't even self-enforcing. Furthermore, it puts a lot of future restrictions on the namespace, and take it from me, you don't want to do that.
That, of course, is in addition to everything else...
-hpa
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