From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp106.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.52.175]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75614DDE48 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:20:10 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> References: <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com> <29c13109971547687159078eacdea008@kernel.crashing.org> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: From: Dan Malek Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:20:07 -0500 To: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com, linux-ppc-embedded , Timur Tabi , Segher Boessenkool , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I would much rather see these devices moved to a different minor > range. No. We just did that all too recently, and i don't know why the minors didn't get allocated properly. I don't want to have to update all of our embedded software distributions just because someone doesn't like minor numbers that aren't causing trouble. If we allocate unique spaces for all of the possible UART variations, there isn't going to be enough space. Just allocate the four slots and we'll deal with anything above this in custom products. Using more than four of these processor resources as UARTs isn't likely to happen because there won't be anything left for the interesting communication ports. Thanks. -- Dan