Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xencons missing string allocation

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    The index is effectively the index into the array of ttyS devices.
> For example, ttyS[1] == ttyS1.  When I specify console=ttyS1, this 
> value
> gets separated into driver "ttyS", index 1 in the console data
> structure.  The xen console driver only knows how to deal with index 0.
> The patch I sent confines the namespace translation to one place, but I
> think a similar change could be done in places like the open function
> where it specifically checks for index == 0.
Should the patch then not just set the index to zero, rather than 
conditionally subtracting xc_num?
 -- Keir


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