Re: [PATCH] use .devfs_name in struct miscdevice

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 13:59:32 EST

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Followup to: <20030430173315.A4057@lst.de>
By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There's three drivers in the tree that workaround the suboptimal
> devfs name choice of the misc device layer (/dev/misc/<foo>) using
> devfs_mk_symlink. Switch them to set miscdev.devfs_name instead
> to get the right name from the very beginning.
>

Understatement of the week :)

-hpa

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