Re: [patch 1/2] staging: speakup: add function to convert dev name to number

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:04:18PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: 
> The console stuff is odd though, but that is each driver defining the
> name for itself, major/minor does not apply.  Also, a separate driver is
> not having to figure this all out.  I wonder if we could just add a tty
> core function for this as it does know the name of everything that has
> been registered with it, right?

I can start working on a patch for this. I'm still new to the tty code
so will follow up with any questions I might have.

Thanks,
Okash