HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration

[Jaakko Heinonen]

[Posting a patch to -geom for comments.]

On 2010-10-07, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> Currently several GEOM classes (notably geom_label) allow to create
> devices with invalid names. Below is a link to a patch which converts
> g_dev_taste() to use make_dev_p() with MAKEDEV_CHECKNAME flag. It's not
> a complete solution and essentially changes the panic to a printf.

What do you think about this patch?

	http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/geom_dev-checkname.2.diff

Any better ideas how to handle this in GEOM? It doesn't seem to be
trivial to propagate an error from g_dev_taste() due to asynchronous
nature of the device registration in GEOM.

-- 
Jaakko