Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932193Ab0HXV7u (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:59:50 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:48984 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755435Ab0HXV7r (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:59:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:16:41 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: Samo Pogacnik , linux kernel , linux-embedded Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk Message-ID: <20100824231641.33d5679b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100824211016.GA7176@suse.de> References: <1275175983.2122.42.camel@itpsd6lap> <1276123020.16010.97.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100611134455.3fa7d563@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1276291932.2154.45.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100621153858.444695c0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1277244410.2195.47.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100622232108.26752ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1277462596.2143.101.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100625120329.1303aa61@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1282683470.8020.66.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100824211016.GA7176@suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEWysKsSBQMIAwIZCwj///8wIhxoRDXH9QHCAAABeUlEQVQ4jaXTvW7DIBAAYCQTzz2hdq+rdg494ZmBeE5KYHZjm/d/hJ6NfzBJpp5kRb5PHJwvMPMk2L9As5Y9AmYRBL+HAyJKeOU5aHRhsAAvORQ+UEgAvgddj/lwAXndw2laEDqA4x6KEBhjYRCg9tBFCOuJFxg2OKegbWjbsRTk8PPhKPD7HcRxB7cqhgBRp9Dcqs+B8v4CQvFdqeot3Kov6hBUn0AJitrzY+sgUuiA8i0r7+B3AfqKcN6t8M6HtqQ+AOoELCikgQSbgabKaJW3kn5lBs47JSGDhhLKDUh1UMipwwinMYPTBuIBjEclSaGZUk9hDlTb5sUTYN2SFFQuPe4Gox1X0FZOufjgBiV1Vls7b+GvK3SU4wfmcGo9rPPQzgIabfj4TYQo15k3bTHX9RIw/kniir5YbtJF4jkFG+dsDK1IgE413zAthU/vR2HVMmFUPIHTvF6jWCpFaGw/A3qWgnbxpSm9MSmY5b3pM1gvNc/gQfwBsGwF0VCtxZgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 461 Lines: 11 > Why does this need to be a tty driver? Why not a misc device? So you can use it as a"console" (in the user space sense) tty device on embedded devices which don't have a meaningful normal output subsystem. Alan -- 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/