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authorPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>2014-06-02 01:47:24 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-06-05 10:13:41 +0400
commitd1cadce15af85e409b199c541badd5c9b8839aa0 (patch)
tree762df762094bc72ca13d4b4a3421cfe766d92f01 /drivers/isdn
parenta79f5d2612ef7ecc8728e35e31d65da7a9ab49c7 (diff)
downloadlinux-d1cadce15af85e409b199c541badd5c9b8839aa0.tar.xz
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')
-rw-r--r--drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c4
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));