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

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Message-ID: <45E5BD6B.1010509@freescale.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:35:39 -0600
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Dan Malek <dan@...eddedalley.com>
CC:	Torben.Mathiasen@...com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

Dan Malek wrote:

> I don't think that would be a problem, and I'd like the
> CPM/QE to share devices because it makes the
> software distributions common to all Freescale
> embedded processors.

I'm willing to use whatever minor number and range the community agrees upon.

An alternative idea, which one person already shot down, was to allow only 4 devices 
normally, but allow more devices if you use udev, since udev doesn't care about minor 
number assignments.  This eliminates the overlap and encourages people to use udev.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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