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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"Mathiasen, Torben" <Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:29:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5ADCF.5050406@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E59BFC.8020206@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> It sounds like the QE driver should be moved to a separate minor range, 
> and given 8 minors.

I just had a thought - since udev doesn't care about major/minor number assignments, can 
we say that the limit is 4 devices if you're not using udev, and 8 otherwise?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-28 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-27 17:25 lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices Timur Tabi
2007-02-27 17:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-28  1:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 14:34   ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 14:54     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 14:54       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 15:46       ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 15:46         ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:04         ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:04           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:27           ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:27             ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:35             ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:46               ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:51                 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 18:00                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 18:00                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 18:20                     ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 19:18                       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:18                         ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:21                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:21                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:30                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:30                             ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:33                             ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:33                               ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:43                               ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:43                                 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 20:57                                 ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 20:57                                   ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 22:08                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 22:08                                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 15:48                                     ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 15:48                                       ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 15:55                                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 15:55                                         ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:06                                         ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 16:06                                           ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 16:13                                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:13                                             ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:43                                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 16:43                                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 13:38                                   ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-03-01 13:38                                     ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 19:21                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:21                         ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:25                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 19:25                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 19:27                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:27                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:45                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 19:45                             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 22:40                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-28 22:40                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-28 12:07 ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 13:00   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 13:14     ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 14:32       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 14:37       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 14:51         ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 14:54           ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 15:13             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 16:29               ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-02-28 16:33                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 16:20             ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 14:35     ` Timur Tabi

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