Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933128Ab0KQFt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:49:29 -0500 Received: from tango.tkos.co.il ([62.219.50.35]:55250 "EHLO tango.tkos.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754867Ab0KQFt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:49:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:48:57 +0200 From: Baruch Siach To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jiri Slaby , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Alex Gershgorin , Indan Zupancic Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation Message-ID: <20101117054857.GB26928@jasper.tkos.co.il> References: <4CE0FE71.6000303@suse.cz> <20101115100838.GA3649@jasper.tkos.co.il> <4CE10B32.8090705@suse.cz> <20101116110444.2f0cabd9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4CE28299.30907@suse.cz> <20101117053251.GA26928@jasper.tkos.co.il> <4CE36B8B.3040403@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CE36B8B.3040403@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1199 Lines: 30 Hi H. Peter, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:43:39PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/16/2010 09:32 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> On 11/16/2010 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> Sixteen devices is way too many for drivers/misc - it only has 256 total > >>> and only half of those are dynamic. > >> > >> Seconded. (And it's a quarter, not even a half like I already wrote.) > > > > If I reduce the maximal number of devices to 4, will it make any difference? I > > don't mind even having a limit of 2 by default, as long as a simple define > > change is enough to raise this limit. > > > Just use a major. No biggie. And create my own 'struct class'? baruch -- ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - -- 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/