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 > > > are generally intended to be human readable as-is. Just preserving > > > spaces is > > > probably sufficient for this as they are probably the most commonly used > > > character in labels affected by this change. > > > > All right. I have prepared patches for review. > > > > - Quote device names in devctl(4) device events. This allows events to > > work for device names containing spaces. > > - Allow spaces again in device names. > > > > Requested by: jhb > > PR: kern/161912 > > Thanks. I think your patches look fine as far as I can tell.
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).
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