Alan Cox writes:
>> Ted's request is perfectly valid, just about every single Linux
>> application I have seen refers to disk as "disk" and not
>> disc. Changing it in one place like that is silly and going to
>> cause a lot of nusiance for the users.
>
> So dont use devfs. Its policy in the wrong place, if you dont like it
> you are screwed. Or add a /proc/sys/devfs/diskname
It never was practical to rename all your device files. The names
chosen by HPA were hard-coded everywhere: kernel, apps, scripts...
Devfs doesn't really make this any worse, but it does have horrible names.
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