Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751161AbXB1Q3K (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:29:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752027AbXB1Q3J (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:29:09 -0500 Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.165.103]:45179 "EHLO de01egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161AbXB1Q3I (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:29:08 -0500 Message-ID: <45E5ADCF.5050406@freescale.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:29:03 -0600 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; it; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Kumar Gala , "Mathiasen, Torben" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices References: <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com> <93C4769E3BED6B42B7203BD6F065654C08C5D6E8@dmoexc01.emea.cpqcorp.net> <45E57CE5.5010003@zytor.com> <93C4769E3BED6B42B7203BD6F065654C08C5D7FF@dmoexc01.emea.cpqcorp.net> <45E593C2.6020004@freescale.com> <93C4769E3BED6B42B7203BD6F065654C08C5D8FD@dmoexc01.emea.cpqcorp.net> <0DA3FFD2-CFB8-44FB-872B-00D85B11213B@kernel.crashing.org> <45E59BFC.8020206@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <45E59BFC.8020206@zytor.com> 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 Content-Length: 584 Lines: 16 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > It sounds like the QE driver should be moved to a separate minor range, > and given 8 minors. I just had a thought - since udev doesn't care about major/minor number assignments, can we say that the limit is 4 devices if you're not using udev, and 8 otherwise? -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/