Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:48:07 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver |
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote: > We don't really have an option here. None of the distros I know of will > currently work with dynamic minors for the console device. If we only use > dynamic minors, our driver will simply not work with most of the > distributions. > > I don't want a driver that will break our console - I want one that will > make it work better. Dynamic minors, at least today, will just break us. > > Plus, as I said before, LANANA's web page states they don't accept > submissions for the 2.6 kernel. What are we to do?
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. - 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/
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