From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karsten Keil Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] CAPI: Officially claim char major 191 Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: <201001231432.09918.isdn@linux-pingi.de> References: <20100123122430.5a078b4a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1264250892.3469.52.camel@violet> Reply-To: isdn@linux-pingi.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-3" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alan Cox , Jan Kiszka , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, i4ldeveloper@listserv.isdn4linux.de, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox To: Marcel Holtmann Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:58055 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751649Ab0AWNcW (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:32:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1264250892.3469.52.camel@violet> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Samstag, 23. Januar 2010 13:48:12 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > > I found no trace of this mysterious "pcl181" device, neither in-tree > > > nor out there in the wild. At the same time, the in-tree CAPI > > > middleware is using major 191 for many years now and obviously without > > > any conflict. Let's officially claim this major number. > > > > This is not the way it should have been done but whoever needs spanking > > got away with it years ago. Given that this seems the best way forward. > > > > With LANANA hat on > > actually in the days of udev, the capifs is not really needed anymore. > The right choice would be to remove it. I haven't been enabling it since > years. > So far I understand, the pppd capiplugin is the only user of it, so it could be disabled for most users without any problems, as long they are not using PPP connections via CAPI. I never understand capifs very well, I think that it can be dropped because of udev, but maybe need some adjustment in user space as well (make sure that udev did create the node before open it). I f I remember correctly, here was some proposal to replace the /dev/capi/ nodes with devpts, this would remove the complete capi_tty device major as well. Karsten