From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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 14:43:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE58FE5.3010502@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118201035.GA26287@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
>> > One last question. If I create multiple TTY devices, how do I tell the kernel
>> > which one should be used for the console?
> On the command line.
Is there a way to do it in the driver itself? Getting the boot loader to
identify the specific byte channel for stdout isn't trivial. It'd be nice if
the driver could tell the tty layer, "BTW, this use this for the default console".
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 20:43 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 [this message]
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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