From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Alex Gershgorin <agersh@rambler.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:42:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE235EE.3040602@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116055602.GA18210@jasper.tkos.co.il>
On 11/15/2010 09:56 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>
>> This is niche enough, don't make it more complicated than needed.
>> Having its own major seems overkill.
>
> I agree.
>
Numbers are cheap, especially these days when we have 12-bit dynamic
majors. Of course, we also have 20-bit dynamic minors.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-15 8:23 [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation Baruch Siach
2010-11-15 9:33 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-11-15 10:08 ` Baruch Siach
2010-11-15 10:28 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-11-15 13:40 ` Baruch Siach
2010-11-15 14:24 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-11-15 16:19 ` Greg KH
2010-11-16 0:47 ` Indan Zupancic
2010-11-16 5:56 ` Baruch Siach
2010-11-16 7:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-11-16 11:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 13:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-11-17 5:32 ` Baruch Siach
2010-11-17 5:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-17 5:48 ` Baruch Siach
2010-11-17 8:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-11-17 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 11:05 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-17 6:18 ` Thomas Chou
2010-11-17 13:28 ` Baruch Siach
[not found] ` <4CE42457.8090001@zytor.com>
2010-11-18 2:15 ` Thomas Chou
2010-11-18 2:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-22 5:57 ` Baruch Siach
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