Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote:
> We don't really have an option here.  None of the distros I know of will
> currently work with dynamic minors for the console device.  If we only use
> dynamic minors, our driver will simply not work with most of the
> distributions.
> 
> I don't want a driver that will break our console - I want one that will
> make it work better.  Dynamic minors, at least today, will just break us.
> 
> Plus, as I said before, LANANA's web page states they don't accept
> submissions for the 2.6 kernel.  What are we to do?

Linus stance is there shouldn't be new static allocations for 2.6 (I disagree
with him, btw).  I still wonder why you need your own major for 2.6 but not
for 2.4.
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