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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com,
	linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:21:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5D621.1050005@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED6BD6F0-827F-4ADC-9D66-F9C3DD7FC470@embeddedalley.com>

Dan Malek wrote:

> Just allocate the four slots and we'll deal with
> anything above this in custom products. 

Assuming that this is the agreed-upon standard, should I arbitrarily restrict my driver to 
4 ports, or allow all 8?

I assume that if a driver already claims a particular major/minor combo, then when the 2nd 
driver calls uart_add_one_port(), that call will fail?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-28 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com>
     [not found] ` <29c13109971547687159078eacdea008@kernel.crashing.org>
     [not found]   ` <45E592DC.9060700@freescale.com>
2007-02-28 14:54     ` lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 15:46       ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:04         ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:27           ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:35             ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:46               ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:51                 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 18:00                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 18:20                     ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 19:18                       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:21                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:30                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:33                             ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:43                               ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 20:57                                 ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 22:08                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 15:48                                     ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 15:55                                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:06                                         ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 16:13                                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:43                                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 13:38                                   ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 19:21                       ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-02-28 19:25                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 19:27                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:45                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 22:40                         ` Jan Engelhardt

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