From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
"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 16:19:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152544746.27368.134.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607100757t4ddfaf93l1723580de551529b@mail.gmail.com>
Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 10:57 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl:
> > A few apps do rely on /proc/tty/drivers for the major-minor
> > to device name mapping. /dev/vc/0 does not exist (unless
> > created manually) without devfs.
>
> This is why I questioned if /proc/tty was really in use, it contains
> an entry that is obviously wrong for my system.
Which tools already know about. What is so hard to understand about the
idea that pointless random changes break stuff and don't fix things.
As I've now said three times, put the new stuff in your sysfs work you
are going to submit, and get it right there, then come back and
revisit /proc/tty.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 15:01 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
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 [this message]
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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