Re: broken devfs-support in SGI Zilog8530 serial driver

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:28:56PM +0100, Raoul Borenius wrote:

> > > 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 ...
> 
> But it would be nice to have ;-)
> 
> Especially because you only need the small change pointed out by
> Russell Coker:

Ok :-)  Applied to 2.4 and 2.5.

  Ralf