Re: [Patch 3/6] dm: decimal device num sscanf

From: Joe Thornber (thornber@sistina.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 10:24:54 EST


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:20:00PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:13:26PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > > This code should just go away completly. There's no excuse for parsing
> > > a dev_t in new code instead of a pathname.
> >
> > It's in there to match the output from 'dmsetup table'. I'm not sure
> > anyone uses it, but I'd still like to keep it so that 2.4 and 2.6 stay
> > in sync.
>
> Please do the matching from dev_t to pathname in userspace.

we do.
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