[PATCH] Re: filenames with spaces in /sys?

[Christian Kujau]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> Hm, OTOH /proc also does contain some elements with spaces in it (e.g.
>> /proc/irq/47/GPIO1 ADB)...so, in short: would patches be accepted to
>> turn ' ' into '_' again (if they don't break too much userspace stuff)?
>
> I see no reason not to for the battery class, certainly.

Thanks. By changing drivers/power/pmu_battery.c I now have '_' instead of 
' ' (spaces) in /sys:

/sys/devices/platform/pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU_battery_0
/sys/class/power_supply/PMU_battery_0

I'm still not sure if some userspace tool out there uses the 
old paths and will break now.

Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists at nerdbynature.de>

--- linux-2.6-git/drivers/power/pmu_battery.c.orig	2008-04-27 20:26:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-git/drivers/power/pmu_battery.c	2008-04-27 20:31:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static int __init pmu_bat_init(void)
  		if (!pbat)
  			break;

-		sprintf(pbat->name, "PMU battery %d", i);
+		sprintf(pbat->name, "PMU_battery_%d", i);
  		pbat->bat.name = pbat->name;
  		pbat->bat.properties = pmu_bat_props;
  		pbat->bat.num_properties = ARRAY_SIZE(pmu_bat_props);


C.
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SCSI's too wide.