From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Vorontsov Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:05:18 +0400 Message-ID: <20101001160518.GA20335@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> References: <20101001132045.GA9649@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20101001132207.GE25897@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20101001134138.5ea2fb55@linux.intel.com> <20101001135254.GA27739@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20101001151841.3fad627c@linux.intel.com> <20101001152258.GA14846@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20101001155756.54e9716c@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:64696 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751611Ab0JAQFY (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:05:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101001155756.54e9716c@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Tobias Klauser , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:57:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I don't need it, but someone might. > > Why ? No idea. But why you asked in the first place? :-) I thought you have had some scenario when static major number is necessary. > > Plus, it doesn't solve anything as there are only 256 minor > > numbers. ;-) If we ever want to support the insane number of Altera > > UARTs, we'll have to solve it very differently. For now, I'd vote for > > keeping it simple. > > We got past the 256/256 limit some time ago. Oh? Then using dynamic major makes a lot of sense, thanks! -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2