linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally.

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Message-Id: <20070406.000913.28784231.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:09:13 +0900 (JST)
From:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	torben@...nel.org, paulus@...ba.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	flar@...andria.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, device@...ana.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers;
 optionally.

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:47:15 -0400, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> > Is major 204 minor 192 already allocated?
> 
> Of course. The reason it took so long to provide this patch after the
> 'pmac_zilog doesn't load' bug got reported was because I was waiting for
> the new allocation.
> 
> > Few weeks ago, I sent a patch to allocate 192...199 for other serial
> > driver 
> 
> Were those numbers assigned to you or did you just make them up?

What I did is just send a patch includeing devices.txt changes to
lkml, device@...ana.org, and some others.

Maybe I should have sent "request" (not patch) mail to
device@...ana.org first?

---
Atsushi Nemoto
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