Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:12:18 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x) |
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Andrew Morton writes: > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > Instead, it appears that someone broke tty_name(). Here's the > > > 2.2 kernel's version: > > > > That "someone" was me, and I changed it from broken to fixed. > > > > Look at serial.c: > > #if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE > 0x2032D && defined(CONFIG_DEVFS_FS)) > serial_driver.name = "tts/%d"; > #else > serial_driver.name = "ttyS"; > #endif > > tty_name will just print "ttyS". So the transition for this case > was fixed->broken.
Why exactly is just "ttyS" broken?
> > No, originally tty_name() did it, and then I shifted it to the > > drivers. I don't recall the reason, but it was necessary. So I don't > > want this changed. > > Oh dear. Why cannot devfs expand the minor part itself?
Do you mean why devfs can't do it, or do you mean why tty_name() can't do it? As I said, tty_name() used to do it, but there was some problem with that.
Regards,
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