From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Erik Jacobson <erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:48:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040625124807.GA29937@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.53.0406250742350.377639@subway.americas.sgi.com>
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote:
> We don't really have an option here. None of the distros I know of will
> currently work with dynamic minors for the console device. If we only use
> dynamic minors, our driver will simply not work with most of the
> distributions.
>
> I don't want a driver that will break our console - I want one that will
> make it work better. Dynamic minors, at least today, will just break us.
>
> Plus, as I said before, LANANA's web page states they don't accept
> submissions for the 2.6 kernel. What are we to do?
Linus stance is there shouldn't be new static allocations for 2.6 (I disagree
with him, btw). I still wonder why you need your own major for 2.6 but not
for 2.4.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 14:48 [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 21:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 3:15 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:46 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-25 13:00 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-26 23:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 0:24 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 0:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 1:14 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 1:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:54 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 8:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 9:02 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 12:28 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 19:04 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 19:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 19:47 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 22:09 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 23:10 ` Russell King
2004-06-25 15:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-25 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 16:16 Pat Gefre
2004-06-22 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-22 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 14:42 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:07 ` Erik Jacobson
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