Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:27:45 +0100
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
       Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/6] dm: decimal device num sscanf
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:14:43PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:24:54PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> So why do you do it in kernel again?

Let's reverse the question, why are you deprecating passing a dev_t
into the kernel ?  (I'm not being awkward, just confused).

- Joe
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