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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
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> > 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.

Who needs to know the driver's major/minor, and why?
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