> > > The difficulty is that extracting and evaluating them breaks the > > > wonderful > > > bus-independent MODNAME implementation for hotplug suggested by Roman > > > Kagan > > > ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/7039 ), and that > > > these > > > strings may contain spaces and other "strange" characters. The latter may > > > be > > > worked around, but the former cannot. /etc/hotplug/pcmcia.agent looks > > > really > > > clean because of this MODNAME implementation: > > > > Same goes with Open Firmware match strings that we are about to pass > > down to userspace as well. Hotplug will have to learn to deal with > > those. > > Ok, any suggestions that don't involve hashes?
Not sure, I haven't looked at the details & issues involves (I just "spotted" the issue about space while quick-reading lkml). I suppose quotes around the strings are good enough, at least for OF, I yet have to see a "compatible", "name" or "type" property with quotes in it... Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
