Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752663AbZIJS2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:28:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751165AbZIJS2w (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:28:52 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57579 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751096AbZIJS2v (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:28:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA92487.5080401@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:08:39 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Alan Cox , LKML , Kay Sievers , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] char/tty_io: fix legacy pty name when more than 256 pty devices are requested References: <20090908144942.76ddf0e7@caramujo.chehab.org> <4AA6DF50.3030603@zytor.com> <20090908203323.486c129c@caramujo.chehab.org> <4AA6F63F.7090009@zytor.com> <20090908235441.04549a29@caramujo.chehab.org> <4AA73309.8030302@zytor.com> <20090910010512.60a1f523@caramujo.chehab.org> <4AA89B02.1050909@zytor.com> <20090910093301.4ccfd786@caramujo.chehab.org> <20090910150716.66310f02@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090910150716.66310f02@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 26 On 09/10/2009 07:07 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > > This is a real step back. > > It now wastes all the tty[e-p]%d namespace. ttyp%d for > 255 at least > only uses one for this irrelevant area. > Honestly, I *really* don't think the [pt]ty[p-za-e]* namespace should be used for another purpose, at least until BSD ptys are killed dead, so in that sense expanding tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f] to tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]+ is hardly significant in the namespace pollution sense. Can you imagine ttyp1 being a BSD pty and ttyp10 being a completely different kind of device? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/