Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759435Ab0KPHnO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:43:14 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50895 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753978Ab0KPHnN (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:43:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4CE235EE.3040602@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:42:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101103 Fedora/1.0-0.33.b2pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baruch Siach CC: Indan Zupancic , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Alex Gershgorin Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation References: <4CE0FE71.6000303@suse.cz> <20101115100838.GA3649@jasper.tkos.co.il> <4CE10B32.8090705@suse.cz> <20101116055602.GA18210@jasper.tkos.co.il> In-Reply-To: <20101116055602.GA18210@jasper.tkos.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 22 On 11/15/2010 09:56 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: >> >> This is niche enough, don't make it more complicated than needed. >> Having its own major seems overkill. > > I agree. > Numbers are cheap, especially these days when we have 12-bit dynamic majors. Of course, we also have 20-bit dynamic minors. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/