svn commit: r244585 - in head: . sys/geom/label

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 11 09:44:33 UTC 2013


On 2013-01-09, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I do not object, but IMHO having names with the spaces in /dev is weird
> > and possibly problematic.

I agree and my my preference was also to disallow spaces. However I
expected that someone might complain.

> > 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...

Just for the record, usb(4) already uses quoted values for certain
devctl variables. See usb_notify_addq() in sys/dev/usb/usb_device.c.

-- 
Jaakko


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