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

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Message-ID: <45E5DB49.8010205@freescale.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:43:05 -0600
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Dan Malek <dan@...eddedalley.com>, Torben.Mathiasen@...com,
	linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@...abs.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

Kumar Gala wrote:

>> Eh, I'm not crazy about that.  That means that I have to complicate my 
>> driver because someone else screwed up a long time ago.
> 
> If not you someone else.  The cost in the driver is small compared to 
> fixing up all the distro's and such.  If you don't provide this change 
> someone else will.

*sigh*

What about major number 205?  It also has the screwed-up /dev/ttyCPM entries, but it has 
more room, and the CPM driver doesn't actually use it.  At least, I can't see where it 
uses it.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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