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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:56:47 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@...escale.com> Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:43:17 -0600 Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >> > One last question. If I create multiple TTY devices, how do I tell the kernel > >> > which one should be used for the console? > > > On the command line. > > Is there a way to do it in the driver itself? Getting the boot loader to > identify the specific byte channel for stdout isn't trivial. It'd be nice if > the driver could tell the tty layer, "BTW, this use this for the default console". You can - provide the required method in your console driver and it'll get used by /dev/console. Funnily enough a lot of other platform and consoles need that too. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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