From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965317AbXCAQOS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:14:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965315AbXCAQOS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:14:18 -0500 Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.165.103]:37703 "EHLO de01egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965317AbXCAQOR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:14:17 -0500 Message-ID: <45E6FBC5.4060705@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:13:57 -0600 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Malek CC: Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com, Segher Boessenkool , Kumar Gala , linux-ppc-embedded , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices References: <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com> <45E592DC.9060700@freescale.com> <511cacb7bbe8a65ff72738c84ec9ece4@kernel.crashing.org> <45E5B604.904@freescale.com> <46F6BF70-2922-4E05-8DAB-6B0830B0AB47@embeddedalley.com> <45E5BD6B.1010509@freescale.com> <45E5C128.7020204@freescale.com> <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> <45E5D627.6030707@zytor.com> <45E5D84A.5000502@freescale.com> <278AADB6-E175-4177-A728-5357E21697B7@kernel.crashing.org> <45E5DB49.8010205@freescale.com> <45E6F78A.7070603@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Malek wrote: > Don't worry about it for now. We'll just keep this in > mind when we make a major change someday in > the future. We may have a better solution then. Ok, what about udev? If a user is running udev, which supposedly doesn't care about minor numbers, won't the user still be limited to 4 UARTS? If so, is there a way for the driver to detect udev and allow 8 UARTS? -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net (de01egw02.freescale.net [192.88.165.103]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CABDDE01 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 03:14:09 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <45E6FBC5.4060705@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:13:57 -0600 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Malek Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices References: <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com> <45E592DC.9060700@freescale.com> <511cacb7bbe8a65ff72738c84ec9ece4@kernel.crashing.org> <45E5B604.904@freescale.com> <46F6BF70-2922-4E05-8DAB-6B0830B0AB47@embeddedalley.com> <45E5BD6B.1010509@freescale.com> <45E5C128.7020204@freescale.com> <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> <45E5D627.6030707@zytor.com> <45E5D84A.5000502@freescale.com> <278AADB6-E175-4177-A728-5357E21697B7@kernel.crashing.org> <45E5DB49.8010205@freescale.com> <45E6F78A.7070603@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Segher Boessenkool , linux-ppc-embedded , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dan Malek wrote: > Don't worry about it for now. We'll just keep this in > mind when we make a major change someday in > the future. We may have a better solution then. Ok, what about udev? If a user is running udev, which supposedly doesn't care about minor numbers, won't the user still be limited to 4 UARTS? If so, is there a way for the driver to detect udev and allow 8 UARTS? -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale