From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750745AbVHVVKE (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:10:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750743AbVHVVJl (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:09:41 -0400 Received: from outmx019.isp.belgacom.be ([195.238.2.200]:39313 "EHLO outmx019.isp.belgacom.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751207AbVHVVJh (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:09:37 -0400 Message-ID: <430A3F55.7090909@246tNt.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:10:45 +0200 From: Sylvain Munaut User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050610) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Obtaining official minor device number : How ? (tried device@lanana.org, no answer) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'd like to obtain some minor device number and I'm not sure how to do so. I've seen that a request must be sent to device@lanana.org, and I've done it, following the instructions (I think). I've sent it twice, a first time two month ago, then again a little less than a month ago. Each time with no anwer ;( Here is the mail I sent each time (greeting & thanks snipped) : -------- I'd like to obtain an official range in the low-density serial port (major=204) for the serial ports on the SoC MPC5200. This chip has 6 PSC that can act as serial port. I'd suggest naming them ttyPSC[0-5] and just using "PPC PSC - port n" as decription since freescale might decide to reuse the PSC for future chips in the same family. Something like that I'd guess 148 = /dev/ttyPSC0 PPC PSC - port 0 ... 153 = /dev/ttyPSC5 PPC PSC - port 5 Currently the driver (drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c) uses the "standard" /dev/ttySx but that causes conflicts when for example a pcmcia serial card is present since both driver want the same serial. Apparently the "low density serial port" major is there for theses kind of ports so ;) -------- Is there some critical information missing ? Something I don't get ? Sylvain