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

David Miller
2007-04-04T01:17:37Z

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:12 +1000

> It worked before the new serial core, we had a "tweak" in the old 8250
> driver to be able to share minors, but that got busted when Russell
> rewrote the whole thing. I remember asking him back when he still was
> the serial maintainer, and he refused to bring back some sharing of
> minors.

Fork the 8250 driver like I did on Sparc so you can get the
dynamic minor behavior back :-))))