From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Barry Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:23:46 +0000 Subject: Re: tty devices Message-Id: <200401211923.46204.bobb@absamail.co.za> List-Id: References: <20040117195133.90850.qmail@web14901.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040117195133.90850.qmail@web14901.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel