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

Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01T16:05:26Z

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:57:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't need it, but someone might.
>
> Why ?

No idea. But why you asked in the first place? :-) I thought you
have had some scenario when static major number is necessary.

> > Plus, it doesn't solve anything as there are only 256 minor
> > numbers. ;-) If we ever want to support the insane number of Altera
> > UARTs, we'll have to solve it very differently. For now, I'd vote for
> > keeping it simple.
>
> We got past the 256/256 limit some time ago.

Oh? Then using dynamic major makes a lot of sense, thanks!

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