Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:57:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver |
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> 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.
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