Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?

[Timur Tabi]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> It's racy at many levels, symlinks and other stuff are not replaced
> atomically, you get a "move" uevent", but it's not easy to connect the
> event to the old and new device. Device nodes are not renamed at all,
> there isn't even support for that in the kernel now.

Kay, thank you so much for this explanation.  I wish every function in the
kernel were described so thoroughly!  My life would be so much easier.

I put your text into a patch and posted it for review.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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