Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>]

David Weinehall wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:03:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > [ tty driver name breakage ]
> >
> > Richard, can we please get this wrapped up?
> >
> > My preferred approach is to change the driver naming scheme
> > so that we don't have to put printf control-strings everywhere.
> > We can remove a number of ifdefs that way.
> 
> Wouldn't it be cleaner to have:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
>         serial_driver.name = "tts/";
> #else
>         serial_driver.name = "tts";
> #endif
> 
> and
> 
>         sprintf("buf, "%s%d", name, idx + tty->driver.name_base);
> 
> respectively?!
> 

Well, with the scheme I proposed most drivers won't need the
ifdef.  It'll just be:

	serial_driver.name = "cua";

With devfs enabled that expands to cua/42.  Without devfs it expands
to cua42.

Seems that some drivers have had their name changed when used under
devfs (tts/%d versus ttyS%d).  But a lot have not.

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