From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, device@lanana.org
Subject: Re: devices.txt errors
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:22:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <787b0d920607091022l4e4e7b1en41781a50a1ab048f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060710024315.7dacd7f9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On 7/9/06, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 02:49:19 -0400 "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some names, like "/dev/iseries/vtty%d", are too damn big.
>
> As far as I know they were never used and certainly aren't now. We did
> once use /dev/viocons/%d, but that went away a long time ago (before the
> code was in the mainline kernel). Major 229 is now used by the pSeries
> Hypervisor consoles (/dev/hvc%d) and hopefully soon by a new iSeries
> hypervisor console with the same name.
Since that still isn't in devices.txt...
/dev/ttyHV%d would match the standard pattern better.
(assuming you only need 3-digit numbers)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-09 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-09 6:49 Albert Cahalan
2006-07-09 16:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-07-09 17:22 ` Albert Cahalan [this message]
2006-07-10 1:55 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-07-13 21:04 ` Greg KH
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