Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?

[Jon Smirl]

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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