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

Randy Dunlap
2007-02-27T17:39:07Z

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:25:10 -0600 Timur Tabi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (Email to device@lanana.org bounces, so I'm sending this to lkml instead.)

cc: to Torben

> I'm working on a UART device driver for the Freescale PowerPC QUICCEngine, which
> is a replacement for the CPM. Since the QE is basically "CPM v3", and you can't
> have a CPM and a QE on the same board, I figure that they can share the same
> minor numbers.
>
> I've attached a patch that adds these entries to major number 204. Please not
> that there's a small typo for /dev/ttyCPM5, and I've fixed that in the patch as
> well.
>
> Please let me know if my proposal/patch is acceptable, and if not, what changes
> you want me to make. Thanks.
>
> patch:
>
> Fixed a typo with /dev/ttyCPM5. Added entries for /dev/ttyQE0-3. The QE
> is a replacement for the CPM, so they can share the same minor numbers.
>
> --- devices-2.6+.txt 2007-02-22 13:37:18.000000000 -0600
> +++ devices-2.6+.new 2007-02-22 13:42:50.000000000 -0600
> @@ -2770,7 +2770,10 @@
> 45 = /dev/ttyMM1 Marvell MPSC - port 1
> 46 = /dev/ttyCPM0 PPC CPM (SCC or SMC) - port 0
> ...
> - 47 = /dev/ttyCPM5 PPC CPM (SCC or SMC) - port 5
> + 49 = /dev/ttyCPM5 PPC CPM (SCC or SMC) - port 5
> + 46 = /dev/ttyQE0 PPC QE (UCC) - port 0
> + ...
> + 49 = /dev/ttyQE3 PPC QE (UCC) - port 3
> 50 = /dev/ttyIOC0 Altix serial card
> ...
> 81 = /dev/ttyIOC31 Altix serial card
>
>
> --

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~Randy
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