On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > No support for digits etc.?
> The underlying serial field supports digits and more (in fact it's
> really an arbitrary 20 byte buffer). However I excluded digits in
> this case because the usual Linux naming scheme for partitions is
> either:
>
> /dev/<name><partnum>
>
> where <name> ends in an alphabetic character (eg. /dev/sda) , else:
>
> /dev/<name>p<partnum>
>
> where <name> ends in a digit (eg. /dev/mmcblk0p1).
>
> If we allow people to use a label that ends in a digit then we'd
> (probably) need to abide by this convention too, which makes things
> complicated. I agree this is not ideal, but also we can relax this
> restriction later.
Isnt the above true only for kernel names, but not for persistant
devicenames in /dev/disk/by-{id,name,label,foo}. I think the latter get
"-partN" appended by udev.
Olaf
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