On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:10:12 +0200, Soren Hansen said:
> Allow for hvc based tty's to take over the vt driver's major number
> and namespace.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK
> +#define HVC_MAJOR	4
> +#else /* CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK */
>  #define HVC_MAJOR	229
> +#endif /* CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK */
>  #define HVC_MINOR	0

Out of curiosity, what happens if you boot a kernel with this config hack
on a system that has real live "plain old ttys"?