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From: Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca>,
	speakup@linux-speakup.org, Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:52:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170615065251.GB372@sanghar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170614130418.GA1184@kroah.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:04:18PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: 
> The console stuff is odd though, but that is each driver defining the
> name for itself, major/minor does not apply.  Also, a separate driver is
> not having to figure this all out.  I wonder if we could just add a tty
> core function for this as it does know the name of everything that has
> been registered with it, right?

I can start working on a patch for this. I'm still new to the tty code
so will follow up with any questions I might have.

Thanks,
Okash

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-15  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-13 22:37 [patch 0/2] staging: speakup: support more than ttyS* okash.khawaja
2017-06-13 22:37 ` [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number okash.khawaja
2017-06-14  8:23   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-06-15  8:17     ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-14 10:13   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-14 10:15     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-14 11:26       ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 11:48         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-14 12:18           ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 12:36             ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-06-14 12:46               ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 13:04               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-15  6:52                 ` Okash Khawaja [this message]
2017-06-17 10:16                   ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-17 10:25                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-17 10:57                       ` Okash Khawaja
2017-06-13 22:37 ` [patch 2/2] staging: speakup: make ttyio synths use device name okash.khawaja

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