Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together

Alan Cox
2010-10-01T15:07:41Z

> I guess the sane maximum number of ports would be 8, but it is still
> possible to do hundreds of them.

In that case you may just want to allocate a dynamic major instead - or
do you actually need a fixed major/minor for your boot up ?