From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and parallel port support
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:31:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051004213110.GA16400@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c5c83f$4c7184d0$3502a8c0@cisit.local>
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:24:24PM -0500, Jason Dravet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I opened bugzilla bug 145148
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id\x145148) at the
> beginning of this year. Udev was creating a bunch of unnecessary items in
> /dev. The parallel ports were mentioned specifically along with a large
> number of ttyS and tty nodes. When redhat responded to the bug I found out
> that udev had to create the parallel port nodes itself using a rule because
> the parallel port module was not loading at boot time. I opened the bug to
> get the parallel port module to load at boot time so udev could dynamically
> create the nodes instead of creating 4 parallel ports when most people have
> (use) one.
>
> I received an email asking me to try the new fedora core 4 kernel. I have
> installed it and it works fine for me. The issue is udev is still creating
> the parallel port statically instead of dynamically. When will udev be able
> to dynamically create the nodes for parallel ports?
It does so today just fine, the last time I looked. It's a kernel
issue, not a udev issue.
How could udev be creating devices "statically"? It's up to the kernel
to export what it has availble, and right now, it just exports them all.
Is that what bothers you? If so, feel free to change the kernel code to
work better if you wish.
But again, it's a kernel issue, not a udev issue.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-03 17:24 udev and parallel port support Jason Dravet
2005-10-04 21:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-10-04 21:48 ` Jason Dravet
2005-10-04 21:56 ` Greg KH
2005-10-04 21:57 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-04 22:12 ` Jason Dravet
2005-10-04 22:14 ` Jason Dravet
2005-10-04 22:26 ` Greg KH
2005-10-04 22:38 ` 'Kay Sievers'
2005-10-05 11:48 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-10-05 14:05 ` Jason Dravet
2005-10-06 7:15 ` Marco d'Itri
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