From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261874AbVCALTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:19:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261876AbVCALTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:19:33 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:49678 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261874AbVCALT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:19:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:19:22 +0000 From: Russell King To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: updating mtime for char/block devices? Message-ID: <20050301111922.B29817@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <42225CEE.1030104@gmx.net> <1109576878.6298.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4223BB3B.4060309@gmx.net> <20050301093709.A29817@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <42244EDD.9020204@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <42244EDD.9020204@gmx.net>; from c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net on Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Russell King schrieb: > > tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk. > > Intentionally. > > It seems the tty mtime exception doesn't include /dev/ptmx. That's > probably unintentional. Is there a chance to extend the tty mtime > exception to all char devices or at least major 4+5? It does include /dev/ptmx, at least here with 2.6.11-rc2-bk1 and 2.4 kernels. In fact, it's common to all tty devices since it's handled by the generic tty code. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core