From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] char/tty_io: fix legacy pty name when more than 256 pty devices are requested
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:59:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090908185926.042ba9aa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090908144942.76ddf0e7@caramujo.chehab.org>
> So, in order to allow more pty devices, the nomenclature were extended for
> the devices with minor 256 or above. For those, the nomenclature will be:
> ttyf0000-ttfpffff (pty slave)
> ptyf0000-ttyfffff (pty master)
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
This fine and the namespace is free - but you need to update
Documentation/devices.txt as well please.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 17:49 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-08 17:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-09-08 18:56 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-08 18:59 ` [PATCH v2 " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-08 22:48 ` [PATCH " H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-08 23:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-09 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-09 2:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-09 4:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 4:05 ` [PATCH] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-10 6:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 12:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-10 14:07 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-10 15:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 16:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 19:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-10 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 20:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-10 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 23:23 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-10 23:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-11 8:43 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-10 4:13 ` [PATCH RFC] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-10 5:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-10 12:18 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-09-10 10:19 ` Alan Cox
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