On 04/19/2016 11:26 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > 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 not clear that this is the only possible solution, simply because you declare it is. > 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. My attempt to understand the requirements was genuine. -- 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
