From: Bob Barry <bobb@absamail.co.za>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tty devices
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401211923.46204.bobb@absamail.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040117195133.90850.qmail@web14901.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:51, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Why do I have 60 tty devices under udev; is this controllable?
> What would I use the 60 tty devices for?
I asked the same thing of Martin Schlemmer (the gentoo udev packager) :
>> I have several times pruned the tty's to tty0-tty6 and restarted. I have verified that
>> dev-state/devices.bz2 contains only tty0-tty6, but hotplug/udev always re-creates
>> tty's through tty63. Is that good or correct? Is it configurable?
He replied:
> That is what is supported by the kernel, so is created. You could
> change the tty stuff in /etc/udev/udev.rules to rather call a script,
> and only handle what you want ...
Like Jon, I feel it's contrary to udev's charter. Is it really right?
Thanks,
Bob Barry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-21 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-17 19:51 tty devices Jon Smirl
2004-01-19 18:47 ` Greg KH
2004-01-21 17:23 ` Bob Barry [this message]
2004-01-21 23:47 ` Greg KH
2004-01-22 0:05 ` Jon Smirl
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