Commit 62d3bab5 authored by Joe Thornber's avatar Joe Thornber Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] dm: allow slashes in dm device names

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.  [Kevin Corry]
parent 62baf68a
......@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static inline int get_mode(struct dm_ioctl *param)
static int check_name(const char *name)
{
if (strchr(name, '/')) {
if (name[0] == '/') {
DMWARN("invalid device name");
return -EINVAL;
}
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