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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>,
	Torben.Mathiasen@hp.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:00:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5C333.2060100@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E5C128.7020204@freescale.com>

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Dan Malek wrote:
> 
>> I'd shoot that down, too.  Using udev in an
>> embedded, reliable environment is very
>> troublesome.  Although, products I've
>> developed using more than 4 UARTs had
>> some custom /dev work done to it just
>> to get everything mapped.  My only
>> concern is we don't add a new range for
>> QE UARTs, that we use the same minors
>> for both CPM and QE.
> 
> Then it appears that the only possible solution is to assign numbers 46 
> - 53 to the CPM/QE and accept that it overlaps with the Altix.  Is 
> everyone okay with that?
> 

I would much rather see these devices moved to a different minor range.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-28 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-27 17:25 lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices Timur Tabi
2007-02-27 17:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-28  1:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 14:34   ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 14:54     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 15:46       ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:04         ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:27           ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:35             ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 17:46               ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 17:51                 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 18:00                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <ED6BD6F0-827F-4ADC-9D66-F9C3DD7FC470@embeddedalley.com>
2007-02-28 19:18                       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:21                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:30                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:33                             ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 19:43                               ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 20:57                                 ` Dan Malek
2007-02-28 22:08                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 15:48                                     ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 15:55                                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:06                                         ` Dan Malek
2007-03-01 16:13                                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-01 16:43                                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-01 13:38                                   ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 19:21                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 19:25                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 19:27                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 19:45                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 22:40                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-28 12:07 ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 13:00   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 13:14     ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 14:32       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 14:37       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 14:51         ` Mathiasen, Torben
2007-02-28 14:54           ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-28 15:13             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 16:29               ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 16:33                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-28 16:20             ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-28 14:35     ` Timur Tabi

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