From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Wood Scott-B07421 <scottwood@freescale.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:12:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF7C56F.7040001@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=foTZsnNBgYYAZySPWuwueEraeXGTQz+1aefKm@mail.gmail.com>
Kay Sievers wrote:
>
> It's racy at many levels, symlinks and other stuff are not replaced
> atomically, you get a "move" uevent", but it's not easy to connect the
> event to the old and new device. Device nodes are not renamed at all,
> there isn't even support for that in the kernel now.
Kay, thank you so much for this explanation. I wish every function in the
kernel were described so thoroughly! My life would be so much easier.
I put your text into a patch and posted it for review.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 16:12 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
2010-12-01 9:54 ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-02 16:12 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4CF7C56F.7040001@freescale.com \
--to=timur@freescale.com \
--cc=arnd@arndb.de \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=gregkh@suse.de \
--cc=kay.sievers@vrfy.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=michael@ellerman.id.au \
--cc=scottwood@freescale.com \
--cc=stuart.yoder@freescale.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.