linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: Fix register_disk() when name has '/' in it

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Message-ID: <ac3eb2510901092208q1bbaca38xc1aefa9247b86f42@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:08:01 +0100
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Fix register_disk() when name has '/' in it

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:57, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:
> Commit 3ada8b7e ("block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(),
> dev_set_name()") deleted the code in register_disk() that changed a '/'
> to a '!' in the device name when registering a disk.

Hmm, this is done in the core, for all devices since a while:
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f255651fb41c111ee35a2ae632df8ce9bd61def

We should find what is going wrong here, instead of putting that code back.

Kay
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