Messages in this thread | | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:14:48 -0800 | Subject | Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink |
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miquels@cistron-office.nl wrote: >If you're making it not 100% compatible anyway, now is the time >to do away with that horrible 'disc' spelling ;). 'disk' is a >harddisk or floppy disk, 'disc' is for compact disc (try Google >on both spellings and you'll see that the world agrees ..). >Just do s/disc/disk/g in devfs_register().
The names of devices are not chosen by fs/devfs/*.[ch]. They are chosen by the client code in device drivers and elsewhere that call call devfs. In the case of the /dev/discs/ names, they are chose by devfs_{create,remove}_partitions in fs/partitions/check.c, which, from the comments, was apparently written by Linus Torvalds and Russell King.
Tangential note:
For what it's worth, my preference would be to change from /dev/discs/disc0/part1 to /dev/disk/0/part1, but I think it would probably do more harm than good to try to coordinate such a change with switching devfs. If you want to try to make a change where people will eventually have to update their systems, I think it would probably make more sense to survey existing devfs naming practices and try to come up with some recommendations harmonize them a bit. For example, should the directory names be singular or plural (/dev/loop or /dev/loops, /dev/disk or /dev/disks)? I would recommend signular because it is less English-centric. There are probably four or five recommendations like these that could be put into a Documentation file. More consistent naming schemes in anything tend to make a system more readily usable.
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