Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:29:15 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? |
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:36:50PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > I really don't want to get into it, but the networking code is the only > > thing that allows this due to the userspace "want" to rename devices > > because we can't create symlinks to network devices like we can for all > > other devices (as they use device nodes.) > > > > When this function is called, userspace had better know exactly what is > > going on as it can get confused due to the lack of uevents happening. > > Thanks for the explanation, but I'm just concerned that you'll add a comment > that says, "don't call this function". A quick grep will show that there are > users of this function, and we'll have this exact conversation all over again.
Care to turn the above into a patch? I'll be glad to apply that as well :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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