Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Apr 2012 23:18:41 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts |
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> > As such, I would like to suggest the following: > > > > 1. For 3.5, add this to feature-removal.txt. > > 2. For 3.6, remove CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES as a configuration > > option, and printk a warning if devpts is mounted without the > > "newinstance" option. > > 3. For 3.9 remove the legacy support including support for a ptmx node > > outside the devpts filesystem.
Ok I'm putting my tty maintainers hat on at this point because nobody seems to be listening
I'm NAKking this change, I'm NAKking the feature-removal change.
If you want this to change convince the distributions there is a point in supporting it. This is the *wrong* forum to force a cornercase feature onto a bazillion users, and the wrong way to strongarm maintainers of the relevant user space.
If udev has a problem handling it nicely because of the way the link is generated then *fix that problem* so udev automatically gets both cases right. If need be we can add more messages to udev to tell it what is expected and what devtmpfs should produce.
Alan
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