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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:50:33 -0500
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel
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On 11/23/05, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> >>Plus I have 64 tty devices. Couldn't the tty devices be created
> >>dynamically as they are consumed? Same for the loop and ram devices?
> >
> >
> > You do realise that the dynamic device creation for those 64 console
> > devices is done via the console device being _opened_ by userspace?
> >
> Which userspace program is opening 64 console devices? Surely it could
> be taught to use a smaller number. If you mean that open the console
> once creates all those devices, I think that's exactly what Jon was
> suggesting is not desirable (I agree).

I believe the 64 console devices is comming from this define in tty.h
#define MAX_NR_CONSOLES 63

>
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