Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:32:41 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Christmas list for the kernel |
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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).
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