Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver

[Andrew Morton]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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