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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704051732460.17664@anakin>
Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:56:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>,
	Torben Mathiasen <torben@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	paulus@...ba.org, device@...ana.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers;
 optionally.

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 23:31 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto 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.

What about the moratorium on newly assigned numbers?
What about using a dynamically allocated number?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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