Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:36:59 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? |
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Greg KH wrote: > If all you want is a tty driver, then just write a tty driver. No need > for character device nodes or any of that other stuff. Just assign > minor numbers to the device, create it, attach it to the tty core, and > away you go.
What I would like to do is have some control over the name or minor number of the /dev entry.
> I think you are going to have to show code here to get any kind of a > better response out of me as I don't think we are understanding each > other here, sorry.
I'll have to email it to you directly, since it's not authorized for public distribution just quite yet.
-- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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