From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>,
Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:43:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5DB49.8010205@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <278AADB6-E175-4177-A728-5357E21697B7@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Eh, I'm not crazy about that. That means that I have to complicate my
>> driver because someone else screwed up a long time ago.
>
> If not you someone else. The cost in the driver is small compared to
> fixing up all the distro's and such. If you don't provide this change
> someone else will.
*sigh*
What about major number 205? It also has the screwed-up /dev/ttyCPM entries, but it has
more room, and the CPM driver doesn't actually use it. At least, I can't see where it
uses it.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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 [this message]
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
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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