From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:28:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219202852.GB14549@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402192020100.26894-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:21:25PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > udev can create different /dev nodes for these devices. But as udev
> > does not modify the kernel code at all, it can not "solve" the
> > duplication of numbers in the kernel at all. Nor is it meant to.
>
> Okay. If I change the major number of serial ttys inside the kernel
> of course udev would properly handle this. Now the question is would this
> break userland applications using the serial port?
Userland apps use /dev names, not major:minor number pairs, right? So
userspace should be just fine as long as you tell it the proper /dev
name to use.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-19 18:59 [ANNOUNCE] udev 018 release Greg KH
2004-02-19 19:13 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 12:48 ` Michael Buesch
2004-02-20 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 19:16 ` HOWTO use udev to manage /dev Greg KH
2004-02-19 19:36 ` James Simmons
2004-02-19 19:46 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 20:21 ` James Simmons
2004-02-19 20:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-20 0:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-20 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 21:35 ` James Simmons
2004-02-19 22:22 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-19 22:25 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-19 23:07 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 23:46 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-19 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 0:51 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 1:09 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 1:54 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 2:28 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 7:44 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-21 17:42 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-02-22 0:30 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-21 17:20 ` [ANNOUNCE] udev 018 release Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-24 1:49 ` Greg KH
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