Re: [PATCH 2.6] Remove spaces from PCI IDE pci_driver.name field

From: Tomas Szepe
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 11:01:38 EST


On Aug-10 2004, Tue, 12:52 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Files w/o spaces look better and is easier to work with if running
> > from cmd line, but if we ignore the "prettyness" issue, we should at
> > least try to be consistent. Either we have spaces and _all_ driver
> > names are in the format "xxx IDE", "xxx i2c", etc, or we don't allow
> > space at all.
> Any command line tool has to be robust for space handling anyway.

Sure, but while with a GUI you can click on almost anything, on the
command line spaces in filenames have always been a real pain in
the ass, so let's not pretend otherwise.

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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