Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752074AbZIHR7B (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:59:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752041AbZIHR7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:59:00 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:60120 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751922AbZIHR65 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:58:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:59:26 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: LKML , Kay Sievers , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] char/tty_io: fix legacy pty name when more than 256 pty devices are requested Message-ID: <20090908185926.042ba9aa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090908144942.76ddf0e7@caramujo.chehab.org> References: <20090908144942.76ddf0e7@caramujo.chehab.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 17 > So, in order to allow more pty devices, the nomenclature were extended for > the devices with minor 256 or above. For those, the nomenclature will be: > ttyf0000-ttfpffff (pty slave) > ptyf0000-ttyfffff (pty master) > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab This fine and the namespace is free - but you need to update Documentation/devices.txt as well please. Alan -- 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/