Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:03:26 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: patch for sysfs in the cyclades driver |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:55:51PM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: > Hi Greg, all, > > > What's wrong with the kobject in /sys/class/tty/ which has one object > > per port? I think we might not be exporting that class_device > > structure, but I would not have a problem with doing that. > > greg k-h > > Using the simple class tty kobject that tty_io.c keeps might work for my > needs. > > However, there is one thing that stopped me from using it earlier... > > The naming of the directory (tty name) in /sys/class/tty is forced to > be: > "sprintf(p, "%s%d", driver->name, index + driver->name_base);" > > Is it possible we could change this to be more relaxed about the naming > scheme?
Why? That's the kernel name for this tty device, right? Why would you want to change this?
> Maybe we can allow a "custom" name to be sent into the > tty_register_device() call? Like add another option parameter called > "custom_name" that if non-NULL, is used instead of the derived name?
Why? What would you call it that would be any different from what we use today? I guess I don't understand why you don't like the kernel names.
thanks,
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