From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390D0DDEC6 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:33:41 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070403.181733.27782389.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> <1175645568.10567.42.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1175649192.30879.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070403.181733.27782389.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:32:42 +1000 Message-Id: <1175650362.30879.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: paulus@samba.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:17 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:12 +1000 > > > It worked before the new serial core, we had a "tweak" in the old 8250 > > driver to be able to share minors, but that got busted when Russell > > rewrote the whole thing. I remember asking him back when he still was > > the serial maintainer, and he refused to bring back some sharing of > > minors. > > Fork the 8250 driver like I did on Sparc so you can get the > dynamic minor behavior back :-)))) heh, maybe I can use your forked/sparc version :-) Ben.