From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
okash.khawaja@gmail.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca>,
speakup@linux-speakup.org, Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:48:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170614114802.GA23345@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170614112609.uqpvl2z5aoi5jchc@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Greg KH, on mer. 14 juin 2017 12:15:41 +0200, wrote:
> > Ah, no, nevermind, you just need the major/minor. So why not just take
> > that as the input here, and not a string?
>
> Because real users don't know about major/minor numbers.
I'm not disagreeing, it's just that the kernel doesn't know about
"device names" either :)
And trying to have the kernel do the mapping based on strings like this
is not ok, sorry.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-14 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-13 22:37 [patch 0/2] staging: speakup: support more than ttyS* okash.khawaja
2017-06-13 22:37 ` [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number okash.khawaja
2017-06-14 8:23 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-06-15 8:17 ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-14 10:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-14 10:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-14 11:26 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 11:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-06-14 12:18 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 12:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-06-14 12:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 13:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-15 6:52 ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-17 10:16 ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-17 10:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-17 10:57 ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-13 22:37 ` [patch 2/2] staging: speakup: make ttyio synths use device name okash.khawaja
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