From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:10:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152537049.27368.119.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607100541i744dd744n16c35c50dae1e98d@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 4:11 [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 4:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-10 7:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-10 9:44 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 12:41 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 13:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-10 13:03 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 13:12 ` CaT
2006-07-10 13:18 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 14:07 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 14:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 14:42 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-10 14:57 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 15:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-10 15:21 ` Russell King
2006-07-10 15:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-10 15:35 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-10 15:54 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-10 22:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10 18:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-11 21:54 ` Greg KH
2006-07-11 21:52 ` Greg KH
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2006-07-11 2:18 Albert Cahalan
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