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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Is this the same bug that causes this wierdo..
>
> (davej@mesh:drivers)$ pwd
> /driver/bus/pci/drivers
> (davej@mesh:drivers)$ ls -l
> ls: VIA 82C686A/B: No such file or directory

No, that's a separate issue: a device that has an embedded "/" in the
filename is not something you can look up in a UNIX filesystem.

So drivers should avoid using "/" in their name.

(or driverfs might convert them automatically, although I personally think
we should just avoid them).

		Linus

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