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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:41:23 -0800 From: Chad Talbott <ctalbott@...gle.com> To: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Nauman Rafique <nauman@...gle.com>, jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V3] io-controller: Add a new interface "weight_device" for IO-Controller On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com> wrote: > Vivek Goyal wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:52:06AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote: >> I am not very sure but device name/path interface might turn out to be >> more intutive. > > I don't think using an inode path name as interface is a good idea. Because, one > can create new file to point to the same device. Also, pathname could be removed > or renamed by user. > So, i think device number is a better choice. Sorry to butt in, but I don't think anyone is suggesting trying to remember names from device nodes. I think the idea is to use the names derived from the subsystem - such as 'sda' which is reflected in /sys and dmesg. Chad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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