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

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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:13:57 -0600
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Dan Malek <dan@...eddedalley.com>
CC:	Torben.Mathiasen@...com,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@...abs.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

Dan Malek wrote:

> Don't worry about it for now.  We'll just keep this in
> mind when we make a major change someday in
> the future.  We may have a better solution then.

Ok, what about udev?  If a user is running udev, which supposedly doesn't care about minor 
numbers, won't the user still be limited to 4 UARTS?  If so, is there a way for the driver 
to detect udev and allow 8 UARTS?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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