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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:18:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101001151841.3fad627c@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101001135254.GA27739@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>

> I guess the sane maximum number of ports would be 8, but it is still
> possible to do hundreds of them.

In that case you may just want to allocate a dynamic major instead - or
do you actually need a fixed major/minor for your boot up ?


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-01 13:20 [PATCH v2 0/8] Some patches for Altera UART driver Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] serial: Factor out uart_poll_timeout() from 8250 driver Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/8] altera_uart: Add support for polling mode (IRQ-less) Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:57   ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/8] altera_uart: Add support for getting mapbase and IRQ from resources Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/8] altera_uart: Add support for different address strides Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:01   ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:22 ` [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 12:41   ` Alan Cox
2010-10-01 13:52     ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:18       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-10-01 15:22         ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:57           ` Alan Cox
2010-10-01 16:05             ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:23   ` [PATCH v3 " Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:22 ` [PATCH 6/8] altera_uart: Fixup type usage of port flags Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:54   ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] altera_uart: Fix missing prototype for registering an early console Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:52   ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] altera_uart: Don't use plain integer as NULL pointer Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:50   ` Tobias Klauser

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