Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:23:53 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? |
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:08:18PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:23:47 +1100 > Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:13 -0600, Scott Wood wrote: > > > Unfortunately, it's not an exact match, and the fact that reg doesn't > > > translate to a physical address means that AFAICT you'll currently get > > > something like "byte-channel.nnn", where "nnn" is an arbitrary > > > kernel-assigned number. > > > > Can you not use device_rename() ? > > Ah, didn't know about that. Still, might be nice to add support for > "handle" nodes at the infrastructure level rather than in each driver.
No, please never use that function, bad things will happen.
thanks,
greg k-h
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