From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:05:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101001160518.GA20335@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101001155756.54e9716c@linux.intel.com>
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!
--
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-01 13:20 [PATCH v2 0/8] Some patches for Altera UART driver Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] serial: Factor out uart_poll_timeout() from 8250 driver Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/8] altera_uart: Add support for polling mode (IRQ-less) Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:57 ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/8] altera_uart: Add support for getting mapbase and IRQ from resources Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/8] altera_uart: Add support for different address strides Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:01 ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:22 ` [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 12:41 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-01 13:52 ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-01 15:22 ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-01 16:05 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2010-10-01 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 " Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:22 ` [PATCH 6/8] altera_uart: Fixup type usage of port flags Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:54 ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] altera_uart: Fix missing prototype for registering an early console Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:52 ` Tobias Klauser
2010-10-01 13:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] altera_uart: Don't use plain integer as NULL pointer Anton Vorontsov
2010-10-01 13:50 ` Tobias Klauser
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