Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:25:11 +0100 | From | Kay Sievers <> | Subject | Re: [RFC]: add sysfs support to parport_pc, v3 |
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Marko Kohtala wrote: > 2006/1/5, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>: > > "Jason Dravet" <dravet@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> > > > > > + * Added sysfs and udev - Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com> > > > > > */ > > > > 6 is OK - it's LP_MAJOR. > > > > However 99 is JSFD_MAJOR, used by drivers/sbus/char/jsflash.c. And yet my > > /dev/parport0 is also 99:0 (RH 7.3 and RH FC1). I've no idea how that came > > about?? > > > > bix:/home/akpm> grep parport /etc/makedev.d/* > > /etc/makedev.d/generic:a generic parport > > /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x:c $PRINTER 99 0 1 8 parport%d > > JSFD is a block device so tha majors are ok. I'm not just sure if the > PP_MAJOR from linux/ppdev.h should be moved to major.h. > > The patch by Jason however is not ok. He had another problem and this > is not the fix. What he tries to do is already in lp and ppdev, where > I think they belong.
Yeah, I was wondering about it too.
> There is also something weird: why does RedHat create these nodes in > /dev when udev already does that.
Probably cause they want to be safe if nothing from their sysconfig loads the module. Opening the node will autoload it then.
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