Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:52:51 +0100
From: Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
        Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca>,
        speakup@linux-speakup.org, Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name
 to number
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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:04:18PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: 
> The console stuff is odd though, but that is each driver defining the
> name for itself, major/minor does not apply.  Also, a separate driver is
> not having to figure this all out.  I wonder if we could just add a tty
> core function for this as it does know the name of everything that has
> been registered with it, right?

I can start working on a patch for this. I'm still new to the tty code
so will follow up with any questions I might have.

Thanks,
Okash