On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > *However* you still run into the issue that you do not know how many > serial ports you will need to register a tty driver with the tty layer. > Solve that technical problem and the idea of having a single namespace > for chosen serial ports and 8250 ports suddenly becomes realistic.
Ok, so that I understand correctly, your problem is with the tty_register_driver interface as used in serial_core:uart_register_driver, correct? Looking at the function, I understand why. {alloc,register}_chrdev_region is very, very not designed to be fully dynamic it seems. OG. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/