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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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 :-))))