Re: [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Allow slashes ('/') within a DM device name, but not at the beginning.
> 
> Devfs will automatically create all necessary sub-directories if a name
> with embedded slashes is registered.  [Kevin Corry]

Does this interact with the block device name representation in sysfs?
I don't think sysfs can handle names with '/' very well.

thanks,

greg k-h