linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

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Date:	Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, flar@...andria.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:12 +1000

> It worked before the new serial core, we had a "tweak" in the old 8250
> driver to be able to share minors, but that got busted when Russell
> rewrote the whole thing. I remember asking him back when he still was
> the serial maintainer, and he refused to bring back some sharing of
> minors.

Fork the 8250 driver like I did on Sparc so you can get the
dynamic minor behavior back :-))))
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