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| author | Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> | 2014-06-01 23:47:24 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-06-04 23:13:41 -0700 |
| commit | d1cadce15af85e409b199c541badd5c9b8839aa0 (patch) | |
| tree | 762df762094bc72ca13d4b4a3421cfe766d92f01 /drivers/isdn/capi | |
| parent | a79f5d2612ef7ecc8728e35e31d65da7a9ab49c7 (diff) | |
isdn/capi: fix (middleware) device nodes
Since v2.4 the capi driver used the following device nodes if
"middleware" support was enabled:
/dev/capi20
/dev/capi/0
/dev/capi/1
[...]
/dev/capi20 is a character device node. /dev/capi/0 (and up) are tty
device nodes (with a different major).
This device node (naming) scheme is not documented anywhere, as far as I
know. It was originally provided by the capifs pseudo filesystem (before
udev became available). It is required for example by the pppd
capiplugin. It was supported until a few years ago. But a number of
developments broke it:
- v2.6.6 (May 2004) renamed /dev/capi20 to /dev/capi and removed the
"/" from the name of capi's tty driver. The explanation of the patch
that did this included two examples of udev rules "to restore the old
namespace";
- either udev 154 (May 2010) or udev 179 (January 2012) stopped
allowing to rename device nodes, and thus the ability to have
/dev/capi20 appear instead of /dev/capi and /dev/capi/0 (and up)
instead of /dev/capi0 (and up);
- v3.0 (July 2011) also removed capifs. That disabled another method to
create the /dev/capi/0 (and up) device nodes.
So now users need to manually tweak their setup (eg, create /dev/capi/
and fill that with symlinks) to get things working. This is all rather
hacky and only discoverable by searching the web. Fix all this by
renaming /dev/capi back to /dev/capi20, and by setting the name of the
"capi_nc" tty driver to "capi!" so the tty device nodes appear as
/dev/capi/0 (and up).
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/isdn/capi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig b/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig index 1d7adff265f7..7641b3096ea6 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config CAPI_TRACE If unsure, say Y. config ISDN_CAPI_CAPI20 - tristate "CAPI2.0 /dev/capi support" + tristate "CAPI2.0 /dev/capi20 support" help This option will provide the CAPI 2.0 interface to userspace applications via /dev/capi20. Applications should use the diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c index ac6f72b455d1..f9a87ed2392b 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c @@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ static int __init capinc_tty_init(void) return -ENOMEM; } drv->driver_name = "capi_nc"; - drv->name = "capi"; + drv->name = "capi!"; drv->major = 0; drv->minor_start = 0; drv->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL; @@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ static int __init capi_init(void) return PTR_ERR(capi_class); } - device_create(capi_class, NULL, MKDEV(capi_major, 0), NULL, "capi"); + device_create(capi_class, NULL, MKDEV(capi_major, 0), NULL, "capi20"); if (capinc_tty_init() < 0) { device_destroy(capi_class, MKDEV(capi_major, 0)); |