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

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:43:17 -0600
Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greg KH wrote:
> >> > One last question.  If I create multiple TTY devices, how do I tell the kernel
> >> > which one should be used for the console?
> 
> > On the command line.
> 
> Is there a way to do it in the driver itself?  Getting the boot loader to
> identify the specific byte channel for stdout isn't trivial.  It'd be nice if
> the driver could tell the tty layer, "BTW, this use this for the default console".

You can - provide the required method in your console driver and it'll
get used by /dev/console. Funnily enough a lot of other platform and
consoles need that too.

Alan
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