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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:00:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101201010011.GB31571@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF551A0.7030200@freescale.com>

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 01:33:52PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >>> > > When this function is called, userspace had better know exactly what is
> >>> > > going on as it can get confused due to the lack of uevents happening.
> >> > 
> >> > Thanks for the explanation, but I'm just concerned that you'll add a comment
> >> > that says, "don't call this function".  A quick grep will show that there are
> >> > users of this function, and we'll have this exact conversation all over again.
> > Care to turn the above into a patch?  I'll be glad to apply that as well
> 
> One question: why are uevents not happening?

What uevent would describe this?  Userspace asked for the rename to
happen, so it better be aware that it did.

We don't want to do a "remove" and then "add" sequence of events, that
would confuse everyone.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17 21:37 How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 21:51 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:10   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 22:19     ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:42       ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18  2:24         ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 15:31           ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 15:39             ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:03               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:33                 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:36                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:51                     ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:56                       ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:18                         ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 17:38                           ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58                             ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 19:35                               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:02                                 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:06                                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:10                                     ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:43                                       ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:56                                         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-22 16:32                                           ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-22 20:12                                             ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 13:56                                             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-23 17:14                                               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 23:03                                                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 20:58                                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 17:21                 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-18 17:42                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58                     ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 18:13                     ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 10:23                       ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-24 18:08                         ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 18:23                           ` Greg KH
2010-11-24 22:44                             ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-29 21:44                               ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 21:51                                 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-29 22:30                                   ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 22:36                                     ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-30  3:29                                       ` Greg KH
2010-11-30  4:15                                         ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2010-11-30 19:33                                         ` Timur Tabi
2010-12-01  1:00                                           ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-12-01  9:54                                             ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-02 16:12                                               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-24 22:46                           ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-25  4:10                             ` Grant Likely
2010-11-24 18:13                         ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 18:13                           ` Scott Wood

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