From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261214AbUCUUSf (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:18:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261221AbUCUUSe (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:18:34 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:41180 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261214AbUCUUSd (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:18:33 -0500 X-Authenticated: #21910825 Message-ID: <405DF83C.2040703@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:17:00 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030821 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Andi Kleen , Miquel van Smoorenburg Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul References: <405DC698.4040802@pobox.com> <20040321165752.A9028@infradead.org> <405DE3EF.8090508@gmx.net> <20040321185538.A10504@infradead.org> <405DF3C6.8050508@gmx.net> <20040321200211.A11109@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040321200211.A11109@infradead.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:57:58PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>Christoph: Have you looked at my question regarding >>/sys/class/tty/console/dev ? > > > No, I'll leave that to Greg. If you want my 2 (Euro-) Cent I'd rather avoid > exposing a dev_t to userspace wherever possible. Understood. Especially since the recent upsizing of dev_t broke applications trying to be too clever about dev_t. However, look at this: # cat /sys/class/tty/console/dev 5:1 Does this major:minor textfile export address your concerns? Regards, Carl-Daniel