Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760315AbYFMIa2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:30:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754535AbYFMIaO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:30:14 -0400 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:22961 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753587AbYFMIaN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:30:13 -0400 Message-ID: <48523012.1000007@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:30:10 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080406) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "Altobelli, David" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] HP iLO driver References: <20080612182308.GA1091@ldl.fc.hp.com> <48516CF2.106@zytor.com> <48518F99.7060003@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <48518F99.7060003@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 898 Lines: 24 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Altobelli, David wrote: >>> Wouldn't /dev/hpilo/ccbN be a more appropriate namespace? >> >> Yes, that would be more clear. The code is currently defined to a >> maximum of 1 hardware device, but this could change, and the dev path >> should probably reflect that. >> >> How do you feel about /dev/hpiloX/ccbN, where X is 0, 1, ... >> Num_Devices-1? > > I'd rather see /dev/hpilo/dXcY, the point being to try to declutter the > /dev root. For a case when there will be only one, or, in very rare theoretical case, two devices, why bother in the first place? A subdirectory containing only one node is more ugly.. ;) /mjt -- 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/