Hi Alan,
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:29:09AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > > @@ -656,7 +658,7 @@ static struct pnp_device_id pnp_kbd_devi
> > > };
> > >
> > > static struct pnp_driver i8042_pnp_kbd_driver = {
> > > - .name = "i8042 kbd",
> > > + .name = "i8042-kbd",
> >
> > Why is this needed? I don't think spaces are more dangerous than a colon
> > which we do use...
>
> This string becomes the name of a directory in sysfs. Having a ' '
> character in a directory name just doesn't seem like a good idea; at
> the very least it's likely to confuse shell scripts. (A ':' character
> is a lot less subject to misinterpretation.) I could change the '-' to
> ':' if you prefer.
>
We have not heard complains about this causing trouble ever since PNP
support was added (so what 5 years at least?). At this point I'd be more
worried about breaking existing users...
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
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