From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:32:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438499A9.1040409@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051123150349.GA15449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>Plus I have 64 tty devices. Couldn't the tty devices be created
>>dynamically as they are consumed? Same for the loop and ram devices?
>
>
> You do realise that the dynamic device creation for those 64 console
> devices is done via the console device being _opened_ by userspace?
>
Which userspace program is opening 64 console devices? Surely it could
be taught to use a smaller number. If you mean that open the console
once creates all those devices, I think that's exactly what Jon was
suggesting is not desirable (I agree).
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-23 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-22 18:31 Christmas list for the kernel Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 18:39 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-22 19:10 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 1:09 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 1:37 ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-23 2:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 5:18 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 5:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 16:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 19:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-22 19:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-22 19:57 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 22:16 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-23 22:12 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-22 20:49 ` Greg KH
2005-11-22 21:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 21:28 ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-11-22 21:41 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 21:56 ` David Lang
2005-11-22 22:00 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-22 23:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 23:56 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 9:09 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 8:47 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-23 14:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 17:21 ` Gene Heskett
2005-11-23 17:30 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 19:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-22 23:35 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 23:58 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 0:37 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-23 11:19 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 12:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 14:43 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:03 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:12 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:56 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:05 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:37 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 16:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 17:05 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 17:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 17:16 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 17:24 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 17:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 19:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 15:19 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:25 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:31 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:36 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:02 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:16 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:23 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:27 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-23 16:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:33 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 15:20 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-11-23 15:29 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:39 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-11-23 15:51 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:49 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:56 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:32 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-11-23 16:50 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:49 ` John Stoffel
2005-11-23 15:27 ` Martin Mares
2005-11-22 21:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-22 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 7:10 ` Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-23 19:47 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-22 22:11 ` Christmas list for the kernel Bill Davidsen
2005-11-24 4:17 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-23 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
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