From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:19:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050301111922.B29817@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42244EDD.9020204@gmx.net>; from c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net on Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Russell King schrieb:
> > tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk.
> > Intentionally.
>
> It seems the tty mtime exception doesn't include /dev/ptmx. That's
> probably unintentional. Is there a chance to extend the tty mtime
> exception to all char devices or at least major 4+5?
It does include /dev/ptmx, at least here with 2.6.11-rc2-bk1 and 2.4
kernels. In fact, it's common to all tty devices since it's handled
by the generic tty code.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-01 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-27 23:51 updating mtime for char/block devices? Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2005-02-28 7:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-01 0:45 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2005-03-01 1:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-03-01 9:37 ` Russell King
2005-03-01 11:15 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2005-03-01 11:19 ` Russell King [this message]
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