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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:00:11 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@...escale.com> Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 01:33:52PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >>> > > When this function is called, userspace had better know exactly what is > >>> > > going on as it can get confused due to the lack of uevents happening. > >> > > >> > Thanks for the explanation, but I'm just concerned that you'll add a comment > >> > that says, "don't call this function". A quick grep will show that there are > >> > users of this function, and we'll have this exact conversation all over again. > > Care to turn the above into a patch? I'll be glad to apply that as well > > One question: why are uevents not happening? What uevent would describe this? Userspace asked for the rename to happen, so it better be aware that it did. We don't want to do a "remove" and then "add" sequence of events, that would confuse everyone. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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