Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265874AbUFYMsP (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:48:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265548AbUFYMsP (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:48:15 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:4024 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265874AbUFYMsL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:48:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:48:07 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Erik Jacobson Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jesse Barnes , Andrew Morton , Pat Gefre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver Message-ID: <20040625124807.GA29937@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Erik Jacobson , Jesse Barnes , Andrew Morton , Pat Gefre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040623143801.74781235.akpm@osdl.org> <200406231754.56837.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <20040625083130.GA26557@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 20 On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote: > 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? Linus stance is there shouldn't be new static allocations for 2.6 (I disagree with him, btw). I still wonder why you need your own major for 2.6 but not for 2.4. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/