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Message-ID: <4CF42B02.1030009@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:36:50 -0600 From: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.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>, <devicetree-discuss@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? Greg KH wrote: > I really don't want to get into it, but the networking code is the only > thing that allows this due to the userspace "want" to rename devices > because we can't create symlinks to network devices like we can for all > other devices (as they use device nodes.) > > 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. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- 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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