linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames

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Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:30:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:21:23 +0200
"Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@....de> wrote:

> capi device names should get changed to what userspace expects.

If userspace isn't following the spec (which has been the spec for many
years) then thats not our problem.

> Without this change recent udev versions can't produce working device
> nodes as the capi control device node name "capi" collides with the
> "capi" directory under which userspace expects to get the application
> device nodes. This also fixes the Documentation.

The documentation isn't broken, the documentation *is* the reference.

NAK. Fix udev.

We have a spec for a reason, if some distro didn't follow it then that's
up to them but they can sort out their own udev.

Alan
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