From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hoboe2bl1.telenet-ops.be (hoboe2bl1.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.73]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76197DDEB7 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:56:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:56:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven Sender: geert@linux-m68k.org To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally. In-Reply-To: <1175784435.2719.18.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1175666635.2932.17.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17939.17962.248566.886449@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175696383.2774.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070405.233101.106261123.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <1175784435.2719.18.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Atsushi Nemoto , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Torben Mathiasen , device@lanana.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 23:31 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote > > Is major 204 minor 192 already allocated? > > Of course. The reason it took so long to provide this patch after the > 'pmac_zilog doesn't load' bug got reported was because I was waiting for > the new allocation. What about the moratorium on newly assigned numbers? What about using a dynamically allocated number? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds