From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
daniel@zonque.org, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>,
Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>, Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>,
Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
tushar.b@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/10] tty: Fallback to use dynamic major number
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:10:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdV7Uo7JBAXDa6z8R+9v7HaDYQ=QpKf8FMBqvmt372oSsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5475E4EC.7090309@hurleysoftware.com>
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 08:33 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:37:16 -0800
>> , Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:53:58PM -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
>>>>> From: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> Co-existing really needs to be fixed.
>
> What are the requirements for co-existence?
> Is it sufficient to provide 1st come-1st served minor allocation?
>
> Anything done should be designed to solve this name problem forever,
> not some expeditious band-aid.
+1
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-27 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 20:53 [PATCH V2 00/10] UART driver support for BMIPS multiplatform kernels Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 20:53 ` [PATCH V2 01/10] tty: Fallback to use dynamic major number Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-25 20:34 ` Greg KH
2014-11-25 23:37 ` Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-25 23:49 ` Greg KH
2014-11-26 13:33 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-26 14:34 ` Peter Hurley
2014-11-27 11:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2014-11-27 13:50 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-27 14:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 20:53 ` [PATCH V2 02/10] serial: core: Add big-endian iotype Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 03/10] of: Fix of_device_is_compatible() comment Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-18 17:32 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 04/10] of: Change of_device_is_available() to return bool Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-18 17:33 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 05/10] of: Add helper function to check MMIO register endianness Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-18 21:47 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 06/10] serial: pxa: Add fifo-size and {big,native}-endian properties Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-19 14:49 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-19 16:23 ` Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 07/10] serial: pxa: Make the driver buildable for BCM7xxx set-top platforms Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 08/10] serial: pxa: Update DT binding documentation Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 09/10] serial: earlycon: Set UPIO_MEM32BE based on DT properties Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-18 21:50 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-19 3:16 ` Rob Herring
2014-11-19 14:43 ` Grant Likely
2014-11-12 20:54 ` [PATCH V2 10/10] serial: pxa: Add OF_EARLYCON support Kevin Cernekee
[not found] ` <1415825647-6024-1-git-send-email-cernekee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13 7:36 ` [PATCH V2 00/10] UART driver support for BMIPS multiplatform kernels Robert Jarzmik
2014-11-13 16:39 ` Kevin Cernekee
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