Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Scott Wood wrote:

> The tty driver doesn't register the bus, but rather a driver for
> some type of device on that bus.  The code to create the bus goes
> elsewhere, and would not be specific to byte channels.

Which code to create the bus?  Are you saying that the driver should call
bus_register()?

>> Also, this is an Open Firmware driver.  I already have a mechanism whereby I get
>> probed for each instance of a byte channel.  Isn't that my "bus"?
> 
> It would be if you actually had it -- but it looks like you just loop
> over the nodes.

Well, ok, but I can change that.  If I drop the normal character driver
registration and register the byte channels only as tty devices, then I can make
it probe-able.  The reason I don't do it now is because, for a normal character
device, I need to call cdev_init() and cdev_add() after all devices have been
registered, which can't be done in an OF driver since I don't get told when
there are no more probes.

> We should add a proper bus for the "handles" node.  Then sysfs should
> show the link between the tty device and a device tree node -- which is
> really what we're after, the handle is just a means to that end.

How exactly do I do that?

> And getting rid of the redundant chardev driver would be a
> simplification...

I agree there, but so far people have been telling me, "just do this!" without
actually telling me how to do "this".


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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale