In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Moolenaar writes:

>> This patch changes the API so that rather than pass a "dev_t" to the
>> console functions, the "struct consdev *" is passed:
>> 
>>      -typedef        void    cn_putc_t(dev_t, int);
>>      +typedef        void    cn_putc_t(struct consdev *, int);
>> 
>
>I like this. On the ia64 branch I completely ignore the dev argument
>and instead use a static softc. The dev_t is unknown until after
>bus enumeration in principle anyway.

Yeah, I saw that.  Actually I think more or less any console driver
which uses the dev_t arg is wrong about doing that, but we can
fix that subsequently.

>I'll test ia64, both CVS an P4. Let me know when you like to
>commit this so that I can schedule around that...

I'm no no particular hurry, so whenever I have sufficient feedback to
convince me that its safe.

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