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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:33:20 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
CC: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
       "Mathiasen, Torben" <Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com>,
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Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
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Timur Tabi wrote:
> 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?
> 

That seems pretty silly.

	-hpa
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