From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:39:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118153912.GA1443@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE546C5.8060401@freescale.com>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:31:17AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>
> > You need to create one as you really have a "bus" here, as you
> > described.
>
> What about the fact that it's an Open Firmware driver? My driver gets probed
> for each byte channel node in the device tree.
>
> I'm still not sure why you think I have a bus. I don't see where the UART
> drivers register a bus, and there's not a whole lot different between a byte
> channel and a UART.
But they are obviously two different things, right?
> > Please take a step back and go to your original message where you
> > described something like "we have a bus and devices we discover on the
> > bus and they have ids".
>
> I never said we have a bus. There is no entity that conglomerates the byte
> channels.
Why not? It sounds like there should be, right? That would make things
much easier for you in the end from what I can tell.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ 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 [this message]
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
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
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