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SubjectRe: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
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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