Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:10:49 +0100 |
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Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 08:41 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl: > The whole naming scheme encoded into the tty code is incompatible with > udev. Udev allows renames and this code isn't aware of them.
The idea is not to break stuff.
> It does seem that we are missing a user space library call for > converting a device number into a device name using the udev database.
A very large number of users don't bother with udev. Relying on udev is not a wise thing to assume, especially in the embedded space.
Alan
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