Re: [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 17:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:54:38PM +0000, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > This patch removes whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name that appears in the
> > sysfs directory. It is against 2.6.7.
> 
> You jnow that this breaks every tool that knew of the names so far?  E.g.
> Debian mkinitrd (now has a patch to deal with both the whitespace and
> non-whitespace variants) and probably quite a few installers out there.

Greg okayed a pile of other related changes including some that were not
just white space to _ but changed the actual string. So you may want to
take it up with Greg rather than Pekka who is just filling in one that
was missed

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