Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751298AbXB1SAl (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:00:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751316AbXB1SAl (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:00:41 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:53882 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751298AbXB1SAk (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:00:40 -0500 Message-ID: <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:00:19 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timur Tabi CC: Dan Malek , Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Segher Boessenkool , linux-ppc-embedded Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices References: <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com> <29c13109971547687159078eacdea008@kernel.crashing.org> <45E592DC.9060700@freescale.com> <511cacb7bbe8a65ff72738c84ec9ece4@kernel.crashing.org> <45E5B604.904@freescale.com> <46F6BF70-2922-4E05-8DAB-6B0830B0AB47@embeddedalley.com> <45E5BD6B.1010509@freescale.com> <45E5C128.7020204@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <45E5C128.7020204@freescale.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: 900 Lines: 26 Timur Tabi wrote: > Dan Malek wrote: > >> I'd shoot that down, too. Using udev in an >> embedded, reliable environment is very >> troublesome. Although, products I've >> developed using more than 4 UARTs had >> some custom /dev work done to it just >> to get everything mapped. My only >> concern is we don't add a new range for >> QE UARTs, that we use the same minors >> for both CPM and QE. > > Then it appears that the only possible solution is to assign numbers 46 > - 53 to the CPM/QE and accept that it overlaps with the Altix. Is > everyone okay with that? > I would much rather see these devices moved to a different minor range. -hpa - 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/