From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>,
devicetree-discuss@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:23:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124182353.GA10589@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101124120818.7951bcb4@udp111988uds.am.freescale.net>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:08:18PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:23:47 +1100
> Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:13 -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, it's not an exact match, and the fact that reg doesn't
> > > translate to a physical address means that AFAICT you'll currently get
> > > something like "byte-channel.nnn", where "nnn" is an arbitrary
> > > kernel-assigned number.
> >
> > Can you not use device_rename() ?
>
> Ah, didn't know about that. Still, might be nice to add support for
> "handle" nodes at the infrastructure level rather than in each driver.
No, please never use that function, bad things will happen.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 21:37 How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 21:51 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:10 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 22:19 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:42 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 2:24 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 15:31 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 15:39 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:03 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:33 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:36 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:51 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:56 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:18 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 17:38 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 19:35 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:02 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:06 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:10 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:43 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:56 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-22 16:32 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-22 20:12 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-23 17:14 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 23:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 17:21 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-18 17:42 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 18:13 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 10:23 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-24 18:08 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 18:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-24 22:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-29 21:44 ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 21:51 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-29 22:30 ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 22:36 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-30 3:29 ` Greg KH
2010-11-30 4:15 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2010-11-30 19:33 ` Timur Tabi
2010-12-01 1:00 ` Greg KH
2010-12-01 9:54 ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-02 16:12 ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-24 22:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-25 4:10 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-24 18:13 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 18:13 ` Scott Wood
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