On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 21:52:02 Daniel Walker wrote: > > > Seriously, I don't think you need it, but if you really do, we can probably > > > find a way to work around this by changing the base hvc driver. > > > > I think we would have to add something that allows different major/minor > > numbers, because something that includes the name "Hypervisor" shouldn't > > be used for something general.. /dev/hvcX is also registered for "IBM > > iSeries/pSeries virtual console" (according to www.lanana.org) which is > > confusing .. > > That only means we need to update the lanana entry now that the hvc driver > is used on nine different platforms (not including yours) instead of ust > pSeries. Feel free to come up with a backronym for HVC if you're > uncomfortable with the old "hypervisor console" name. If you read back in this thread you'll see how there was a discussion already on how you shouldn't re-use major/minor numbers for other purposes .. It looks like "hvc" was essentially overridden , which now seems like a no-no given that discussion.. This appears to be a sensitive topic. It can't hurt anything to make this hvc driver a little more flexible in this regard .. Daniel -- Sent by a consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
