Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:27:55 +0200 | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts |
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:08, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:16:22PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> I guess the following: >> - remove the 'ptmx' cdev from drivers/tty/pty.c >> - add a new devtmpfs_create_link() to drivers/base/devtmpfs.c >> - call devtmpfs_create_link() from _init in fs/devpts/inode.c >> - change the default of ptxmode=0 to a sane default = 0666 >> - get rid of the (rather broken) idea of 'legacy' vs 'non-legacy mode' >> mount options in the default setup; I don't think userspace should >> ever be required to fiddle with such stuff > > You do realize that there are people with _static_ /dev out there, don't > you? As well as those of us who are not using your latest and greatest > udev and not enabling devtmpfs at all. Not all world is Fedora...
Yeah, and? The dev_t still works from the static /dev/ like it didi 10 years ago. All good.
Not all breaks when I talk about it. :)
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