Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:17:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> +drivers/tty
> +-----------
> +
> +- viro: we need to fix refcounting for tty_driver (oopsable race, must fix
> +  anyway, hopefully about a week until it's merged) then we can do
> +  tty/misc/upper levels of sound and hopefully upper level of USB.
> +
> +  USB is a place where we _really_ need to deal with dynamic allocation of
> +  device numbers and that will bite.

Why?  USB serial drivers have been handling dynamic minors since 2.2
days.  Also works for the USB bluetooth driver, and the USB acm driver
which register with tty_register_device() when a new tty minor is to be
used.

Al, any changes that you want to make to the tty layer, I will gladly
fix up the USB drivers so they work again.  Don't let USB drivers worry
you, they can always be changed, as long as the same functionality is
there :)

thanks,

greg k-h