Re: The Serial Layer

[David Eger]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:49:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Is anyone currently looking at fixing this before I start applying
> extreme violence ? 

While you're at it, could you patch it up so we can have more than one
serial device again?  I tracked down a bug a month ago having to do
with the pmac_zilog driver freaking out because it tried to 

  uart_register(major=TTY_MAJOR, minor=64, nr=foo)

and someone else had gotten there first.  It boils down to a call
to register_chrdev_region(), which fails if the requested space is
taken, instead of looking past the claimed device numbers for some
more empty ones...

-dte
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/