Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:14:42 +0000 | From | Nick Craig-Wood <> | Subject | Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x) |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:36:30AM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote: > Since you have to change all the drivers anyway, I'd prefer if > _tty_make_name() was left unchanged, and instead you put the "%d" in > each driver.name, thusly: > #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS > wod_driver.name = "tts/N%d"; > #else > wod_driver.name = "ttyN%d"; > #endif > > The reason: maximum flexibility in the kinds of names we can > support. If for some reason we want a name like "tts/N%d_A" and > "tts/N%d_B" (say a driver with linked ttys, like the pty driver), we > don't need to make a global change.
I think that is a good idea.
However these names appear in /proc/devices too which looks rather ugly running with devfs at the moment...
# cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty/m%d 3 pty/s%d 4 ttys/%d 5 serial/%d 10 misc 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts/%d 162 raw
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