On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 11:16:44AM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 07:52:51AM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote: > > 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. > > I've put together this function for converting device name to number. > It traverses tty_drivers list looking for corresponding dev name and > index. Is this the right approach? Yes, this looks great, nice job! It is a lot simpler than your previous function, and now you are not limited to just a subset off the different serial ports in the system. Keep up the good work, it's really appreciated. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
