Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:20:47PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:20:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > I'll put together a patch making it mountable. Is there any specific
> > info that needs to be added to sysfs?
> 
> Adding info to the sysfs side of tty devices is rather fraught (or was
> last time I looked - I'd like to do exactly that with serial_core.)
> 
> Unfortunately, until it becomes easier (and maybe it recently has now
> that tty_register_device returns the class device struct), /proc/tty
> needs to stay.  But... I heard that Greg wants to remove struct
> class_device...

Yes I do want to remove it, but anything that you add to the
class_device will still work just fine, I'm not wanting to break
userspace tools anymore :)

And it should be pretty easy to do, now that we do return the
class_device that you need to have to add files to.

thanks,

greg k-h
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