From: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Xilinx uartlite serial driver
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:03:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4469CDAD.20506@246tNt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060516125329.GE15481@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:48:00AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Russell" == Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
>>>>>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for the slow reply, I've been away all weekend...
>>
>> >> Comments and suggestions are welcome. I'm especially wondering about
>> >> the fact that I'm hijacking the device nodes used by the mpc52xx_uart
>> >> driver ..
>>
>> Russell> That's for the mpc52xx folk to comment about. I personally
>> Russel> don't like> it.
>>
>> What do you say Sylvain? Reusing device nodes seems pretty common
>> (pxa.c, at91_serial.c, ..), and I cannot imagine anyone making a
>> system with uartlite and mpc52xx UARTs ..
>>
>
> Actually they're wishing they hadn't because they can't interoperate
> with standard 16550-based ports without resorting to nasty hacks.
> As such they're _both_ transitioning away from using the major 4
> space.
>
Yes, I confirm that using the major 4 space is really a bad idea. The
mpc52xx driver
did this, up until the point of people reported very annoying problems
when pcmcia
serial card were presents ;)
I guess the point is : Yes obtaining official minors is not that fast
(depends on 1 guy
apparently and he's busy ;) but it will save you troubles later.
Sylvain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-11 14:23 [RFC][PATCH] Xilinx uartlite serial driver Peter Korsgaard
2006-05-11 22:20 ` Russell King
2006-05-16 9:48 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-05-16 12:09 ` Sylvain Munaut
2006-05-16 12:53 ` Russell King
2006-05-16 13:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-06-02 16:47 ` Russell King
2006-05-16 13:03 ` Sylvain Munaut [this message]
2006-05-16 13:07 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-08-22 15:13 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-09-12 14:33 ` Olof Johansson
2006-09-13 5:56 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-09-13 13:39 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-09-13 15:01 ` Olof Johansson
2006-09-29 19:04 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-29 19:57 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-04 15:45 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-10-06 4:14 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-30 9:25 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-04 16:01 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-10-06 4:15 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-03 10:27 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
[not found] ` <451CDA3D.2060109@dlasys.net>
2006-10-04 15:41 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-10-06 4:13 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-06 4:14 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-06 4:14 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-19 23:06 ` Olof Johansson
2006-10-20 12:22 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-09-28 10:14 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-04 15:34 ` Peter Korsgaard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-13 14:12 David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-10-13 14:45 ` Peter Korsgaard
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