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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.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>,
	<devicetree-discuss@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:36:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF42B02.1030009@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101129223030.GA14663@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> I really don't want to get into it, but the networking code is the only
> thing that allows this due to the userspace "want" to rename devices
> because we can't create symlinks to network devices like we can for all
> other devices (as they use device nodes.)
> 
> 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.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 22:36 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 [this message]
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
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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