[patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 13:48:02 +0200, wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> > Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 12:15:41 +0200, wrote:

>> And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this
>> is not ok, sorry.
>
> So what is the solution?  Users would find it completely crazy to have
> to provide major/minor numbers.

Shouldn't udev take care of major/minor and alike stuff in user space?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko