From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030217AbWGIRWz (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:22:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964898AbWGIRWz (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:22:55 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:25299 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964880AbWGIRWy (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:22:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KkMCcJJh39laXEBOZsPnfxZKEepj8NzkVFqH5zfCze4PTM6Zstmc5lkfWvKR9bNPp7lJtQ3aHbwJaxd7rkL8AVjR292VjldWwe+q7vv3/CDuG528nvgm3cma9HTU48HFUGNIgmPoiODzN0mxiCHX1wQcAIIUWFabbJysuMZIekY= Message-ID: <787b0d920607091022l4e4e7b1en41781a50a1ab048f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:22:53 -0400 From: "Albert Cahalan" To: "Stephen Rothwell" Subject: Re: devices.txt errors Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, device@lanana.org In-Reply-To: <20060710024315.7dacd7f9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <787b0d920607082349h59ec36f7nc477e3cc9f9b6c77@mail.gmail.com> <20060710024315.7dacd7f9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/9/06, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 02:49:19 -0400 "Albert Cahalan" 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)