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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:08:23 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Jaakko Heinonen <jh@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, pjd@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, imp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r244585 - in head: . sys/geom/label
Message-ID:  <A20D24C1-3DF7-4D3D-8DE6-13E0AE2DF4C6@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130109234526.GL2561@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <201212221343.qBMDhCHa086834@svn.freebsd.org> <201301070927.07157.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130108193146.GA1815@a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi> <201301091417.37451.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130109234526.GL2561@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:17:37PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:31:47 pm Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>>> On 2013-01-07, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>> I think if it isn't hard to do so, we should aim to preserve labels =
as they=20
>>>> are generally intended to be human readable as-is.  Just preserving =
spaces is=20
>>>> probably sufficient for this as they are probably the most commonly =
used=20
>>>> character in labels affected by this change.
>>>=20
>>> All right. I have prepared patches for review.
>>>=20
>>> - Quote device names in devctl(4) device events. This allows events =
to
>>>  work for device names containing spaces.
>>> - Allow spaces again in device names.
>>>=20
>>> Requested by:	jhb
>>> PR:		kern/161912
>>=20
>> Thanks.  I think your patches look fine as far as I can tell.
>=20
> I do not object, but IMHO having names with the spaces in /dev is =
weird
> and possibly problematic. This was the reason of my initial request to
> disable spaces, together with the fact that it changes the devctl(4)
> protocol (there might be other /dev/devctl readers besides devd).

I'm not sure that the protocol changes are quire right yet...

Warner




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