Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751729AbXB1TnS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:43:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751750AbXB1TnS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:43:18 -0500 Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.165.103]:52752 "EHLO de01egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751695AbXB1TnR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:43:17 -0500 Message-ID: <45E5DB49.8010205@freescale.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:43:05 -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: Kumar Gala CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Dan Malek , Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com, linux-ppc-embedded , Segher Boessenkool , Linux Kernel Mailing List 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> <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> <45E5D627.6030707@zytor.com> <45E5D84A.5000502@freescale.com> <278AADB6-E175-4177-A728-5357E21697B7@kernel.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <278AADB6-E175-4177-A728-5357E21697B7@kernel.crashing.org> 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: 815 Lines: 23 Kumar Gala wrote: >> 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. *sigh* What about major number 205? It also has the screwed-up /dev/ttyCPM entries, but it has more room, and the CPM driver doesn't actually use it. At least, I can't see where it uses it. -- 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/