Commit c2faf737 authored by Max Staudt's avatar Max Staudt Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tty: Reserve ldisc 29 for development purposes 



It's handy to have an ldisc number free for out-of-tree testing. This
way, a new ldisc can be developed on any running system, without having
to recompile the kernel just to define a new number.

This is the highest number (and also the last one) available under the
old numbering scheme, so let's reserve it before it's too late.

From now on, every new ldisc upstreamed will have to increment NR_LDISCS
in lockstep with its addition to the table in tty.h.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMax Staudt <max@enpas.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220211141036.6403-1-max@enpas.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9e8d5470

include/uapi/linux/tty.h

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@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ 
 * 'tty.h' defines some structures used by tty_io.c and some defines.

 */



#define NR_LDISCS		30



/* line disciplines */

#define N_TTY		0

#define N_SLIP		1
@@ -39,5 +37,9 @@ 
#define N_SPEAKUP	26	/* Speakup communication with synths */

#define N_NULL		27	/* Null ldisc used for error handling */

#define N_MCTP		28	/* MCTP-over-serial */

#define N_DEVELOPMENT	29	/* Manual out-of-tree testing */



/* Always the newest line discipline + 1 */

#define NR_LDISCS	30



#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_TTY_H */