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From: Timur Tabi
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 1:43 pm

Greg KH wrote:


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".

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?, Timur Tabi, (Wed Nov 17, 2:37 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Wed Nov 17, 2:51 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Wed Nov 17, 3:10 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Wed Nov 17, 3:19 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Wed Nov 17, 3:42 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Wed Nov 17, 7:24 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 8:31 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 8:39 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 9:03 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 9:33 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 9:36 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 9:51 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 9:56 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 10:18 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Scott Wood, (Thu Nov 18, 10:21 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 10:38 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 10:42 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 10:58 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 10:58 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Scott Wood, (Thu Nov 18, 11:13 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 12:35 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 1:02 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 1:06 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Thu Nov 18, 1:10 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Nov 18, 1:43 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Alan Cox, (Thu Nov 18, 1:56 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Alan Cox, (Thu Nov 18, 1:58 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Mon Nov 22, 9:32 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Mon Nov 22, 1:12 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Alan Cox, (Tue Nov 23, 6:56 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Tue Nov 23, 10:14 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Alan Cox, (Tue Nov 23, 4:03 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Michael Ellerman, (Wed Nov 24, 3:23 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Scott Wood, (Wed Nov 24, 11:08 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Scott Wood, (Wed Nov 24, 11:13 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Wed Nov 24, 11:23 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Michael Ellerman, (Wed Nov 24, 3:44 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Michael Ellerman, (Wed Nov 24, 3:46 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Grant Likely, (Wed Nov 24, 9:10 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 29, 2:44 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 29, 3:30 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Mon Nov 29, 3:36 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 29, 8:29 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Tabi Timur-B04825, (Mon Nov 29, 9:15 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Tue Nov 30, 12:33 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Greg KH, (Tue Nov 30, 6:00 pm)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Kay Sievers, (Wed Dec 1, 2:54 am)
Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty d ..., Timur Tabi, (Thu Dec 2, 9:12 am)