From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758451Ab0KQFoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:44:18 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45716 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753642Ab0KQFoR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:44:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4CE36B8B.3040403@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:43:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101103 Fedora/1.0-0.33.b2pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baruch Siach CC: Jiri Slaby , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Alex Gershgorin , Indan Zupancic Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation References: <4CE0FE71.6000303@suse.cz> <20101115100838.GA3649@jasper.tkos.co.il> <4CE10B32.8090705@suse.cz> <20101116110444.2f0cabd9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4CE28299.30907@suse.cz> <20101117053251.GA26928@jasper.tkos.co.il> In-Reply-To: <20101117053251.GA26928@jasper.tkos.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.