Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Sat Jul 08 2006 - 10:10:54 EST


On 7/8/06, Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 22:56 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Does anyone use the info in /proc/tty? The hard coded device names
> aren't compatible with udev's ability to rename things.
>
> There also doesn't appear to be any useful info in the drivers portion
> that isn't already available in sysfs. I can add some code to make a
> list of registered line disciplines appear in sysfs.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with deleting /proc/tty if ldisc enum
> support is added to sysfs?

ps uses /proc/tty/drivers, so some coordination would be needed.

Greg, I just looked at the source for ps and it has a bunch of fixed
code for turning major/minor into /dev/name. Isn't that something
udevinfo should be doing? But looking at the help for udevinfo I don't
see any way to turn a major/minor into /dev/name. The altermative
seems to be search /dev looking for the right device node.

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Jon Smirl
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