From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/10] tty: Fallback to use dynamic major number Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:49:56 -0800 Message-ID: <20141125234956.GA3138@kroah.com> References: <1415825647-6024-1-git-send-email-cernekee@gmail.com> <1415825647-6024-2-git-send-email-cernekee@gmail.com> <20141125203431.GA9385@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Cernekee Cc: Jiri Slaby , Rob Herring , Arnd Bergmann , daniel@zonque.org, Haojian Zhuang , Robert Jarzmik , Grant Likely , Florian Fainelli , Maxime Bizon , Jonas Gorski , Linux MIPS Mailing List , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , tushar.b@samsung.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:37:16PM -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:53:58PM -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote: > >> From: Tushar Behera > > > > This email bounces, so I'm going to have to reject this patch. I can't > > accept a patch from a "fake" person, let alone something that touches > > core code like this. > > > > Sorry, I can't accept anything in this series then. > > Oops, guess I probably should have updated his address after the V1 > emails bounced... > > Before I send a new version, what do you think about the overall > approach? Should we try to make serial8250 coexist with the other > "ttyS / major 4 / minor 64" drivers (possibly at the expense of > compatibility) or is it better to start with a simpler, cleaner driver > like serial/pxa? We can't do anything "at the expense of compatibility", sorry.