Re: udev.rules.devfs + symlinks & a question

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 13:01, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:

> let's start with the question
>
> i'm still missing a number of devices, how should i get them in /udev ?
> these are the raw , pty and pts devices

These, and more, currently lack class device support in the kernel.
As an example, you can look at Greg's tty class in drivers/char/tty_io.c
AFAICS, pty and pts devices need not be created if you use the /dev/pts
file system, although you could register them as tty class devices.

Aside from raw devices, we need at least support for tape and misc devices
(both have been discussed before here) and there are probable others.

> and there is a spelling issue either in devfs or -D :-)
> according to devfs hole disks are named "disc"
> according to -D they are named "disk"
> to me the second is more correct, but as it was added just for devfs
> compatibility it should be probably changed to what devfs use "disc"

When I wrote the patch for %D, I had only dasd devices in mind, which
actually used 'disk', not 'disc' in devfs. Maybe we need both variants,
e.g. %d for disc and %D for disk?
Which drivers are using the disc name, is it only ide or are there others?

	Arnd <><



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