Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965884AbWKEOlO (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:41:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965886AbWKEOlO (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:41:14 -0500 Received: from smtp-out001.kontent.com ([81.88.40.215]:36742 "EHLO smtp-out.kontent.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965884AbWKEOlN (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:41:13 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Scsi cdrom naming confusion; sr or scd? Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:41:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Jan Engelhardt , andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061105100926.GA2883@pelagius.h-e-r-e-s-y.com> <1162735599.3160.91.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1162735599.3160.91.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611051541.37283.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 17 Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 15:06 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > and this is why it's wrong to make naming policy a kernel thing! > Userspace is the right place to do this (and there I suspect the name > will end up being /dev/cdrom)...... the kernel really shouldn't care at > all what the name is. I have to disagree. This precisely shows that the reverse is true. This way the chance of having a default name guaranteed to work is lost. If you want an alternate name, use a symlink. Regards Oliver - 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/