Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names

Alan Cox
2006-07-10T12:53:11Z

Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 08:41 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl:
> The whole naming scheme encoded into the tty code is incompatible with
> udev. Udev allows renames and this code isn't aware of them.

The idea is not to break stuff.

> It does seem that we are missing a user space library call for
> converting a device number into a device name using the udev database.

A very large number of users don't bother with udev. Relying on udev is
not a wise thing to assume, especially in the embedded space.

Alan