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

From	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number
Date	2017-06-14 14:30 +0200
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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

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[patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number okash.khawaja@gmail.com - 2017-06-14 00:50 +0200
  Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2017-06-14 12:00 +0200
    Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 10:20 +0200
  Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-14 12:20 +0200
    Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-14 12:20 +0200
      Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-14 13:50 +0200
        Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-06-14 14:30 +0200
          Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 14:40 +0200
            Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-06-14 15:00 +0200
            Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-14 15:10 +0200
              Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 09:00 +0200
                Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> - 2017-06-17 12:20 +0200
                Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-17 12:30 +0200
                Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> - 2017-06-17 13:00 +0200
      Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name  to number Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> - 2017-06-14 13:50 +0200

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