Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:46:28 -0500
From: Erik Jacobson <erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
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> Please kill the ifdef completely.  As long as LANANA hasn't responded you
> should only use the dyanic nimor, and once it's accepted there's no point
> in using the dynamico ne anymore.  Also I'd sugges grabbing a whole dyanmic
> major instead of using a miscdevice so the code both cases is more similar.

We don't really have an option here.  None of the distros I know of will
currently work with dynamic minors for the console device.  If we only use
dynamic minors, our driver will simply not work with most of the
distributions.

I don't want a driver that will break our console - I want one that will
make it work better.  Dynamic minors, at least today, will just break us.

Plus, as I said before, LANANA's web page states they don't accept
submissions for the 2.6 kernel.  What are we to do?

Thanks.

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Erik Jacobson - Linux System Software - Silicon Graphics - Eagan, Minnesota
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