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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:10:14PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> 
> >>+#define DEV_PATH			"/dev"
> >>+#define EVMS_DIR_NAME			"evms"
> >>+#define EVMS_DEV_NAME			"block_device"
> >>+#define EVMS_DEV_NODE_PATH		DEV_PATH "/" EVMS_DIR_NAME "/"
> >>+#define EVMS_DEVICE_NAME		DEV_PATH "/" EVMS_DIR_NAME "/" EVMS_DEV_NAME
> > 
> > 
> > The kernel doesn't know about device names at all.
> 
> It does for specifying root devices and for devfs.A

root device should be in do_mount.c and not in obscure headers.
devfs doesn'T need hardcoded "/dev" prefixes, and it's better to not
add defines for the strings in devfs so that crap doesn't get spread
over the code but is localized to the existing devfs damage
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