From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net (de01egw02.freescale.net [192.88.165.103]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61418DDE35 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 06:21:48 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <45E5D621.1050005@freescale.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:21:05 -0600 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Malek Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices References: <45E46976.6060600@freescale.com> <29c13109971547687159078eacdea008@kernel.crashing.org> <45E592DC.9060700@freescale.com> <511cacb7bbe8a65ff72738c84ec9ece4@kernel.crashing.org> <45E5B604.904@freescale.com> <46F6BF70-2922-4E05-8DAB-6B0830B0AB47@embeddedalley.com> <45E5BD6B.1010509@freescale.com> <45E5C128.7020204@freescale.com> <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com, linux-ppc-embedded , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Segher Boessenkool , "H. Peter Anvin" List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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