Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:36:50 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? |
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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
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