Re: Why ACM driver disables devfs support?

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:57:15PM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> ÷ óÂÔ, 23.03.2002, × 17:45, Borsenkow Andrej ÎÁĐÉÓÁĚ:
> > 
> > This has been posted in Mandrake newsgroup:
> > 
> > ===============
> > Hello!
> > I've just installed MD8.2 but can't find any ttyACM0 in /dev lib. The
> > acm
> > modules is up and running. How do I create the ttyACM0 device so yhat I
> > can
> > get my usb modem (isdn) working ???
> > Any reply will be welcome!
> > ===============
> > 
> > for all I can tell, ACM devices should be registered as /dev/ucb/acm/%d
> > (drivers/usb/acm.c) but devfs support is explicitly disabled:
> > 
> >         flags:                  TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW |
> > TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS,
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> 
> Sorry, I was stupid today. Of course it does register device name, I do
> not know why I thought differently.
> 
> So, the question is - people obviously expect /dev/ttyACM%d for it,
> should compatibility link go into devfsd?

It may be worth adding it, yes, though I've never needed it.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs