linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number

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Message-ID: <20170614114802.GA23345@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:48:02 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
        okash.khawaja@...il.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>, speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
        Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name
 to number

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 12:15:41 +0200, wrote:
> > Ah, no, nevermind, you just need the major/minor.  So why not just take
> > that as the input here, and not a string?
> 
> Because real users don't know about major/minor numbers.

I'm not disagreeing, it's just that the kernel doesn't know about
"device names" either :)

And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this
is not ok, sorry.

greg k-h