Re: MAKEDEV & 2.3.99-pre

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 16:38:45 EST


> If you look, /proc/devices has the following lines in it:
>
> 2 pty/m%d
> 3 pty/s%d
> 4 tts/%d
> 5 cua/%d
>
> The "%d" look a bit suspect, but I guess it is meaningful to devfs
> (it was changed in 2.3.46 when devfs was included).

That change is right - but only if devfs is included. If devfs is not
present the old names should be reported by /proc/devices IMHO

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