From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Wood Scott-B07421 <scottwood@freescale.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:12:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF7C56F.7040001@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=foTZsnNBgYYAZySPWuwueEraeXGTQz+1aefKm@mail.gmail.com>
Kay Sievers wrote:
>
> It's racy at many levels, symlinks and other stuff are not replaced
> atomically, you get a "move" uevent", but it's not easy to connect the
> event to the old and new device. Device nodes are not renamed at all,
> there isn't even support for that in the kernel now.
Kay, thank you so much for this explanation. I wish every function in the
kernel were described so thoroughly! My life would be so much easier.
I put your text into a patch and posted it for review.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 21:37 How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 21:51 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:10 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 22:19 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:42 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 2:24 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 15:31 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 15:39 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:03 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:33 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:36 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:51 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:56 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:18 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 17:38 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 19:35 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:02 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:06 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:10 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:43 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:56 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-22 16:32 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-22 20:12 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-23 17:14 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 23:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 17:21 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-18 17:42 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 18:13 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 10:23 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-24 18:08 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 18:23 ` Greg KH
2010-11-24 22:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-29 21:44 ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 21:51 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-29 22:30 ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 22:36 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-30 3:29 ` Greg KH
2010-11-30 4:15 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2010-11-30 19:33 ` Timur Tabi
2010-12-01 1:00 ` Greg KH
2010-12-01 9:54 ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-02 16:12 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-11-24 22:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-25 4:10 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-24 18:13 ` Scott Wood
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