Re: [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:21:23 +0200
"Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@xxxxxx> wrote:

> capi device names should get changed to what userspace expects.

If userspace isn't following the spec (which has been the spec for many
years) then thats not our problem.

> Without this change recent udev versions can't produce working device
> nodes as the capi control device node name "capi" collides with the
> "capi" directory under which userspace expects to get the application
> device nodes. This also fixes the Documentation.

The documentation isn't broken, the documentation *is* the reference.

NAK. Fix udev.


We have a spec for a reason, if some distro didn't follow it then that's
up to them but they can sort out their own udev.

Alan
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