Re: [PATCH] Remove whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Christoph,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:54:38PM +0000, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > This patch removes whitespace from ALI15x3 IDE driver name that appears in the
> > sysfs directory. It is against 2.6.7.

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> You jnow that this breaks every tool that knew of the names so far?  E.g.
> Debian mkinitrd (now has a patch to deal with both the whitespace and
> non-whitespace variants) and probably quite a few installers out there.

Sorry, I did not know that. I only booted to my Gentoo box with it. I
saw similar patches go into other PCI drivers which is why I thought it
was appropriate.

		Pekka

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