Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:00:24 -0500 | From | Erik Jacobson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver |
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> 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.
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