Re: Change number of tty devices

[Russell King]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:24:06AM +0000, Jason Cox wrote:
> > When the kernel supports multi-desktop systems we will have to deal
> > with the serial and VT issue. Most likely the serial tty drivers will
> > be given a different major number. 
> 
> Why isn't this done now?

It's a API change and requires a flag day "everyone update their
filesystem."  Especially in a stable kernel series.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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