Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk

[Alan Cox]

> Why does this need to be a tty driver?  Why not a misc device?

So you can use it as a"console" (in the user space sense) tty device on
embedded devices which don't have a meaningful normal output subsystem.

Alan
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