Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:50:33 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: Christmas list for the kernel |
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On 11/23/05, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: > 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).
I believe the 64 console devices is comming from this define in tty.h #define MAX_NR_CONSOLES 63
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