From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161040AbWGJMxL (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:53:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161042AbWGJMxL (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:53:11 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50319 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161040AbWGJMxK (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:53:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names From: Alan Cox To: Jon Smirl Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg KH , lkml , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607100541i744dd744n16c35c50dae1e98d@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910607092111i4c41c610u8b9df5b917cca02c@mail.gmail.com> <1152524657.27368.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> <9e4733910607100541i744dd744n16c35c50dae1e98d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:10:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1152537049.27368.119.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 08:41 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl: > The whole naming scheme encoded into the tty code is incompatible with > udev. Udev allows renames and this code isn't aware of them. The idea is not to break stuff. > It does seem that we are missing a user space library call for > converting a device number into a device name using the udev database. A very large number of users don't bother with udev. Relying on udev is not a wise thing to assume, especially in the embedded space. Alan