Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:48:02 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number |
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 12:15:41 +0200, wrote: > > Ah, no, nevermind, you just need the major/minor. So why not just take > > that as the input here, and not a string? > > Because real users don't know about major/minor numbers.
I'm not disagreeing, it's just that the kernel doesn't know about "device names" either :)
And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this is not ok, sorry.
greg k-h
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