Re: [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally.

Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-05T15:57:08Z

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

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