Re: broken devfs-support in SGI Zilog8530 serial driver

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:32:44AM +0100, Raoul Borenius wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a devfs or mips problem so I'm sending it
> to both lists.
> 
> I just compiled my own mips-kernel from oss.sgi.com:/cvs to get
> devfs-support. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the
> serial-driver at least in the linux_2_4 branch:
> 
> SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00
> devfs_register(ttyS): could not append to parent, err: -17
> devfs_register(cua): could not append to parent, err: -17

At this time we don't even claim to have proper devfs support in the
Indy serial drivers ...

  Ralf