[dm-devel] [PATCH] 2.4: dm-ioctl.c: Allow slashes within device names
Kevin Corry
corryk at us.ibm.com
Tue Feb 4 15:38:01 UTC 2003
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.
diff -Naur linux-2.4.20-dm-7/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c linux-2.4.20-evms-1.9.0-pre3/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
--- linux-2.4.20-dm-7/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c Tue Feb 4 14:28:39 2003
+++ linux-2.4.20-evms-1.9.0-pre3/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c Tue Feb 4 14:26:44 2003
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@
static int check_name(const char *name)
{
- if (strchr(name, '/')) {
+ if (name[0] == '/') {
DMWARN("invalid device name");
return -EINVAL;
}
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