Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757543Ab0KVUMp (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:12:45 -0500 Received: from va3ehsobe004.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.180.14]:42669 "EHLO VA3EHSOBE004.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755512Ab0KVUMo (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:12:44 -0500 X-SpamScore: -6 X-BigFish: VS-6(zz98dNzz1202hzzz2dh2a8h637h668h67dh685h65h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 4:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:de01egw01.freescale.net;RD:de01egw01.freescale.net;EFVD:NLI Message-ID: <4CEACEB1.8020004@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:12:33 -0600 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101101 Fedora/2.0.10-1.fc13 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Greg KH , Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Scott Wood , Stuart Yoder Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? References: <20101118163321.GA2723@suse.de> <4CE5562B.8080604@freescale.com> <20101118165136.GA3103@suse.de> <4CE55ACB.80207@freescale.com> <20101118171856.GA4283@suse.de> <4CE5647F.5000203@freescale.com> <20101118175832.GA4931@suse.de> <4CE58005.7040308@freescale.com> <20101118200230.GA25715@suse.de> <4CE58736.4090703@freescale.com> <20101118201035.GA26287@suse.de> <4CE58FE5.3010502@freescale.com> <20101118205647.677404ec@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4CEA9B00.1000804@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <4CEA9B00.1000804@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Nov 2010 20:13:42.0437 (UTC) FILETIME=[C23CCD50:01CB8A81] X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 19 Timur Tabi wrote: > Can you elaborate on that? What is the "required method"? My driver is mostly > working now, but I have to supply the command-line "console=ttyEHV73" in order > for the login prompt to show up. Unfortunately, there's no way for the boot > loader to know that the primary byte channel for stdout is #73, so I need a way > for the driver to tell the kernel this. Never mind .. I got it working. For some reason, it took a while for me to get add_preferred_console() working. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- 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/