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

[Timur Tabi]

Greg KH wrote:
> If all you want is a tty driver, then just write a tty driver.  No need
> for character device nodes or any of that other stuff.  Just assign
> minor numbers to the device, create it, attach it to the tty core, and
> away you go.

What I would like to do is have some control over the name or minor number of
the /dev entry.

> I think you are going to have to show code here to get any kind of a
> better response out of me as I don't think we are understanding each
> other here, sorry.

I'll have to email it to you directly, since it's not authorized for public
distribution just quite yet.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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