Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272507AbTGaPPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:15:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272515AbTGaPOe (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:14:34 -0400 Received: from smithers.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.34]:48142 "EHLO smithers.nildram.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272507AbTGaPN0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:13:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:13:26 +0100 From: Joe Thornber To: Christoph Hellwig , Joe Thornber , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [Patch 3/6] dm: decimal device num sscanf Message-ID: <20030731151326.GZ394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> References: <20030731104517.GD394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731104953.GG394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731160429.A14613@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030731160429.A14613@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 19 On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:04:30PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:49:53AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > > The 2.4 version of Device-Mapper scans for device-numbers in decimal > > instead of hex (in dm_get_device()). Update 2.6 so both versions use > > the same behavior. [Kevin Corry] > > 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. - Joe - 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/