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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:38:05 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Allow slashes ('/') within a DM device name, but not at the beginning.
> 
> Devfs will automatically create all necessary sub-directories if a name
> with embedded slashes is registered.  [Kevin Corry]

Does this interact with the block device name representation in sysfs?
I don't think sysfs can handle names with '/' very well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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