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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Cc: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>,
	Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>,
	Ivan Passos <ivan@cyclades.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 14:11:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3B6E96.8FB0341A@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C33E0D3.B6E932D6@zip.com.au> <3C33BCF3.20BE9E92@cyclades.com> <200201030637.g036bxe03425@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200201062012.g06KCIu16158@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3C38BC19.72ECE86@zip.com.au> <200201070636.g076asR25565@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3C3A7DA7.381D033D@zip.com.au>, <3C3A7DA7.381D033D@zip.com.au>; <20020108071548.J5235@khan.acc.umu.se> <3C3A9048.CB80061A@zip.com.au>, <3C3A9048.CB80061A@zip.com.au> <20020108165851.B26294@alcove.wittsend.com>

"Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> 
> The trouble there is the problem with conventional lock files under
> /var/lock which only use the base name of the device name so cua/42
> and cuf/42 both have the same lock file of /var/lock/LCK..42 and
> would collide.

OK, thanks.  So it looks like we stick with

	http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.18-pre2/tty_name.patch

Which just puts %d's at the end of all the device names in the
non-devfs case.

I'll have another go at that patch, check for missed drivers,
then send it out again.  OK?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-08 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-03  2:07 Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x) Ivan Passos
2002-01-03  4:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-03  6:37   ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-03  7:03     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-06 20:12       ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-06 20:36         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-06 20:27           ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-06 21:05         ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07  6:36           ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-07  7:20             ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08  5:03             ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08  6:15               ` David Weinehall
2002-01-08  6:23                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08 18:54                   ` Ivan Passos
2002-01-08 21:58                   ` Michael H. Warfield
2002-01-08 22:11                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-08 23:33                       ` Ivan Passos
2002-01-09 16:36                         ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-10  9:14                           ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-01-08 18:47               ` Ivan Passos
2002-01-03 16:32   ` Ivan Passos

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