From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Erik Jacobson <erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:10:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406251110.07383.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040625083130.GA26557@infradead.org>
On Friday, June 25, 2004 4:31 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:15:41PM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote:
> > Andrew and LKML folks -
> >
> > Pat is on vacation and said he wouldn't mind if I posted the latest
> > version of this patch.
> >
> > - I fixed up Kconfig (x86 problem)
> > - I changed SYSFS_ONLY to USE_DYNAMIC_MINOR
>
> Please kill the ifdef completely. As long as LANANA hasn't responded you
> should only use the dyanic nimor, and once it's accepted there's no point
> in using the dynamico ne anymore. Also I'd sugges grabbing a whole dyanmic
> major instead of using a miscdevice so the code both cases is more similar.
But LANANA doesn't assign minors, right? And Linus hasn't banned those, so
the patch to devices.txt should be sufficient, right? (Please let the answer
be yes!) Moreover, isn't this Andrew's decision as the 2.6 maintainer?
Thanks,
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 14:48 [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 21:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 3:15 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:46 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 13:00 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-26 23:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 0:24 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 0:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 1:14 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 1:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:54 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 8:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 9:02 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 12:28 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 19:04 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 19:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 19:47 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 22:09 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 23:10 ` Russell King
2004-06-25 15:10 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2004-06-25 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-25 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 16:16 Pat Gefre
2004-06-22 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-22 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 14:42 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:07 ` Erik Jacobson
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