path name rules

Marcel Holtmann marcel at holtmann.org
Mon Oct 3 11:12:54 PDT 2005


Hi John,

> > What is about '-'? This will make IEEE addresses more readable then
> > using an underscore or non separator at all.
> 
> There was a patch added that enabled '-' for bus names.  This has caused
> some problems and I am almost tempted to revert it if it doesn't get
> fixed or there was no compelling reason for adding it.  I am hesitant at
> this stage in the game to add any spec changing code unless it is really
> warranted.  Object paths are just implementation details and having them
> be human readable especially when dynamically generating them is not all
> that important.  More important is getting this stuff to 1.0.

so let me get this straight. The current code will support '-' for path
names? But you think about removing it before the 1.0 release?

Regards

Marcel




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