From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: pfg@sgi.com, erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com, cw@f00f.org,
hch@infradead.org, jbarnes@engr.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:57:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628135720.369676f4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040628204707.D9214@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > It does sound to me like some work is needed in the generic serial layer to
> > teach it to get its sticky paws off the ttyS0 major/minor if there is no
> > corresponding hardware.
>
> It isn't that simple.
Is it ever?
I realise now I don't understand the problem ;) The altix serial driver
comes up, does register_console() and then stuff gets sent to /dev/console.
Who needs to know the driver's major/minor, and why?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 14:48 Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 21:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 3:15 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:46 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 13:00 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-26 23:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 0:24 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 0:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 1:14 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 1:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:54 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 8:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 9:02 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 12:28 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 19:04 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 19:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 19:47 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 20:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-28 22:09 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 23:10 ` Russell King
2004-06-25 15:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-25 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 16:16 Pat Gefre
2004-06-22 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-22 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 14:42 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:07 ` Erik Jacobson
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