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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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-24 18:25 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
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

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