Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Karsten Keil <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 31/31] CAPI: Officially claim char major 191 | | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:32:09 +0100 |
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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
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