Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 17:58:47 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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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.
Regards,
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