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From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:17:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405DF83C.2040703@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040321200211.A11109@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:57:58PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 
>>Christoph: Have you looked at my question regarding
>>/sys/class/tty/console/dev ?
> 
> 
> No, I'll leave that to Greg.  If you want my 2 (Euro-) Cent I'd rather avoid
> exposing a dev_t to userspace wherever possible.

Understood. Especially since the recent upsizing of dev_t broke
applications trying to be too clever about dev_t. However, look at this:

# cat /sys/class/tty/console/dev
5:1

Does this major:minor textfile export address your concerns?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-21 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-21  6:24 linguist
2004-03-21 16:45 ` [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 16:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 18:50     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-03-21 18:55       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 19:57         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-03-21 20:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 20:17             ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [this message]
2004-03-21 20:26               ` Christoph Hellwig

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