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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART
 and 8250 ports together
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> 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 ?