Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:57:39 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: tty->count ? |
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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:06:45 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>
This seems like a very radical change. On my system running 2.0.0, the ttys and ptys are in major 4, the floppy is major 2, and the IDE disks are major 3. Are ttys/ptys sharing major numbers with these devices, or do I need to completely remake a whole bunch of my device entries?
The ttys and ptys are using the character devices; the floppy and ide disks use only the block devices. Hence, there is no conflict.
You don't have to remake your device entries unless you want more than 64 ptys. The reason for moving the ptys to their own major numbers was to lift the 64 pty limitation. There is compatibility code to support pty's located at the old device numbers, but the compatibility code requires that you either use the new pty device numbers or the old ones. You can't mix and match...
- Ted
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