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

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Message-ID: <45E5ADCF.5050406@freescale.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:29:03 -0600
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Mathiasen, Torben" <Torben.Mathiasen@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> It sounds like the QE driver should be moved to a separate minor range, 
> and given 8 minors.

I just had a thought - since udev doesn't care about major/minor number assignments, can 
we say that the limit is 4 devices if you're not using udev, and 8 otherwise?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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