From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Alex Gershgorin <agersh@rambler.ru>,
Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:43:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE36B8B.3040403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101117053251.GA26928@jasper.tkos.co.il>
On 11/16/2010 09:32 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Jiri, Alan,
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 11/16/2010 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Sixteen devices is way too many for drivers/misc - it only has 256 total
>>> and only half of those are dynamic.
>>
>> Seconded. (And it's a quarter, not even a half like I already wrote.)
>
> If I reduce the maximal number of devices to 4, will it make any difference? I
> don't mind even having a limit of 2 by default, as long as a simple define
> change is enough to raise this limit.
>
Just use a major. No biggie.
-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:[~2010-11-17 5:44 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
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 [this message]
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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