Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272530AbTGaPUP (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:20:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272501AbTGaPUO (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:20:14 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:13069 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272530AbTGaPUF (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:20:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:20:00 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joe Thornber Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [Patch 3/6] dm: decimal device num sscanf Message-ID: <20030731162000.A15112@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Joe Thornber , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Mailing List References: <20030731104517.GD394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731104953.GG394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731160429.A14613@infradead.org> <20030731151326.GZ394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030731151326.GZ394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>; from thornber@sistina.com on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:13:26PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:13:26PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > > This code should just go away completly. There's no excuse for parsing > > a dev_t in new code instead of a pathname. > > It's in there to match the output from 'dmsetup table'. I'm not sure > anyone uses it, but I'd still like to keep it so that 2.4 and 2.6 stay > in sync. Please do the matching from dev_t to pathname in userspace. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/