Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932222AbWAEVZU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:25:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932226AbWAEVZU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:25:20 -0500 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:4327 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932222AbWAEVZT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:25:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:25:11 +0100 From: Kay Sievers To: Marko Kohtala Cc: Andrew Morton , Jason Dravet , greg@kroah.com, device@lanana.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [RFC]: add sysfs support to parport_pc, v3 Message-ID: <20060105212511.GA1547@vrfy.org> References: <20060104010841.GA19541@kroah.com> <20060104143157.357f9830.akpm@osdl.org> <9cfa10eb0601050817u56b007dbj@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9cfa10eb0601050817u56b007dbj@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1486 Lines: 38 On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Marko Kohtala wrote: > 2006/1/5, Andrew Morton : > > "Jason Dravet" wrote: > > > >From: Greg KH > > > > > + * Added sysfs and udev - Jason Dravet > > > > > */ > > > > 6 is OK - it's LP_MAJOR. > > > > However 99 is JSFD_MAJOR, used by drivers/sbus/char/jsflash.c. And yet my > > /dev/parport0 is also 99:0 (RH 7.3 and RH FC1). I've no idea how that came > > about?? > > > > bix:/home/akpm> grep parport /etc/makedev.d/* > > /etc/makedev.d/generic:a generic parport > > /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x:c $PRINTER 99 0 1 8 parport%d > > JSFD is a block device so tha majors are ok. I'm not just sure if the > PP_MAJOR from linux/ppdev.h should be moved to major.h. > > The patch by Jason however is not ok. He had another problem and this > is not the fix. What he tries to do is already in lp and ppdev, where > I think they belong. Yeah, I was wondering about it too. > There is also something weird: why does RedHat create these nodes in > /dev when udev already does that. Probably cause they want to be safe if nothing from their sysconfig loads the module. Opening the node will autoload it then. Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/