Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:27:45 +0100 | From | Joe Thornber <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 3/6] dm: decimal device num sscanf |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:14:43PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:24:54PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > > > > It's in there to match the output from 'dmsetup table'. I'm not sure > > > > anyone uses it, but I'd still like to keep it so that 2.4 and 2.6 stay > > > > in sync. > > > > > > Please do the matching from dev_t to pathname in userspace. > > So why do you do it in kernel again?
Let's reverse the question, why are you deprecating passing a dev_t into the kernel ? (I'm not being awkward, just confused).
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