Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

Timur Tabi
2007-02-28T19:21:51Z

Dan Malek wrote:

> Just allocate the four slots and we'll deal with
> anything above this in custom products.

Assuming that this is the agreed-upon standard, should I arbitrarily restrict my driver to
4 ports, or allow all 8?

I assume that if a driver already claims a particular major/minor combo, then when the 2nd
driver calls uart_add_one_port(), that call will fail?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale