Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266194AbUFYNAk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:00:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266196AbUFYNAk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:00:40 -0400 Received: from cfcafw.sgi.com ([198.149.23.1]:20894 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266194AbUFYNAi (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:00:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:00:24 -0500 From: Erik Jacobson To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Jesse Barnes , Andrew Morton , Pat Gefre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver In-Reply-To: <20040625124807.GA29937@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20040623143801.74781235.akpm@osdl.org> <200406231754.56837.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <20040625083130.GA26557@infradead.org> <20040625124807.GA29937@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1156 Lines: 27 > 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. As I understand it, if you feed serial core a given major, minor, and device name, it rejects you if there is already a driver using them. I certainly had failed registrations when I tried to "share" ttyS0. If my understanding is not correct, I'd be happy to try something else to see if it would work for us. The old driver didn't use serial core, so I think it was able to get away with it. If the current distributions worked better with a console port using dynamic minors, I would have no problem using them. But at this point, if we tried to use them, we'd just break until /dev was populated with our device node - missing startup messages and such. -- Erik Jacobson - Linux System Software - Silicon Graphics - Eagan, Minnesota - 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/