Re: [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 12:38:05 EST


On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Allow slashes ('/') within a DM device name, but not at the beginning.
>
> Devfs will automatically create all necessary sub-directories if a name
> with embedded slashes is registered. [Kevin Corry]

Does this interact with the block device name representation in sysfs?
I don't think sysfs can handle names with '/' very well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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