Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 13:48:02 +0200, wrote: > 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 :) Well, it does for the console= parameter, for instance. I know it's not actually related with major/minor numbering, but it's still meant to designate the same thing. > And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this > is not ok, sorry. So what is the solution? Users would find it completely crazy to have to provide major/minor numbers. Samuel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
