On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:43:03AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:25:25PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > Eww. Do you really want one struct device per tty with all the > > memory each one eats? > > > > If that's really what you want you need to talk to Alan and not me. > > Alan looks after tty level stuff, I look after serial level stuff. > > The above is a tty level issue not a serial level issue. > > mmm. I don't know whether it's really a tty level issue or a serial > issue. The only tty classes with corresponding devices are the serial > ones, at least on my system. If this is the case, then the right fix > would seem to be something like creating a new struct device for each > serial port, then making that the uart_port->dev instead of the pci_dev > or whatever. What's the reason for enforcing one struct device per struct class_dev ? I thought one of the points of class_dev was that you could have multiple of them per struct device. Please note that I have other commitments for the next fortnight, so my time this week is _very_ limited. Can this wait until September? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
