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

[Deepak Saxena]

On Aug 10 2004, at 01:11, Alan Cox was caught saying:
> On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 01:13, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> > Spaces in driver names show up as spaces in sysfs. Annoying.  
> > I went ahead and changed ones that don't have spaces to use
> > ${NAME}_IDE so they are all consistent.
> 
> I don't see the problem with spaces in the filenames. I do see the 
> problem in changing stuff under people for now reason other than
> "I don't like it".
> 
> The existing format with spaces looks a lot better in all the
> graphical file managers.

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. 

~Deepak

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Deepak Saxena - dsaxena at plexity dot net - http://www.plexity.net/

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 will die here like rotten cabbages." - Number 6
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