Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:12:31 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? |
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Kay Sievers wrote: > > It's racy at many levels, symlinks and other stuff are not replaced > atomically, you get a "move" uevent", but it's not easy to connect the > event to the old and new device. Device nodes are not renamed at all, > there isn't even support for that in the kernel now.
Kay, thank you so much for this explanation. I wish every function in the kernel were described so thoroughly! My life would be so much easier.
I put your text into a patch and posted it for review.
-- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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