Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265205AbUF1U7s (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:59:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265206AbUF1U7s (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:59:48 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7143 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265205AbUF1U7o (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:59:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:57:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Russell King 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 Message-Id: <20040628135720.369676f4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040628204707.D9214@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20040628121312.75ac9ed7.akpm@osdl.org> <20040628204707.D9214@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 19 Russell King 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? - 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/