Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbXB1Tel (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:34:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751068AbXB1Tel (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:34:41 -0500 Received: from nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com ([67.18.224.114]:58919 "EHLO nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750968AbXB1Tek (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:34:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45E5D84A.5000502@freescale.com> 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> <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> <45E5D627.6030707@zytor.com> <45E5D84A.5000502@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <278AADB6-E175-4177-A728-5357E21697B7@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Dan Malek , Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com, linux-ppc-embedded , Segher Boessenkool , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:33:38 -0600 To: Timur Tabi X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: kumar-chaos@kgala.com,kumar-statements@kgala.com,kumar@kgala.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kernel.crashing.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 25 On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Kumar Gala wrote: >>> >>> Why don't we allocate the 2nd group of four as well, just at a >>> new location. They'll be discontinuous, but at least we'll have >>> support for all 8. >>> >> Right, it means two tty driver structures, but that's not a problem. > > Eh, I'm not crazy about that. That means that I have to complicate > my driver because someone else screwed up a long time ago. If not you someone else. The cost in the driver is small compared to fixing up all the distro's and such. If you don't provide this change someone else will. - k - 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/