Peter Hurley, on Tue 19 Apr 2016 11:22:46 -0700, wrote: > On 04/19/2016 10:48 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > From the kernel, open a serial port, and write/read text to/from it, > > before /dev is mounted. > > Ok, good luck with that. It's not a question of luck, but of will. I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be a function which takes a major/minor pair, and returns a filp. It's a shame that such a basic need for people who can't see has been receiving such kind of attitude for decades from kernel maintainers. Samuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html