linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together

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Date:	Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:41:38 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART
 and 8250 ports together

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:22:07 +0400
Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com> wrote:

> This fixes tty name and major number conflicts. The major number
> 204 is used across many platform-specific serial drivers, so we
> use that.

204 is allocated in small chunks to specific low volume devices so you
need a proper minor allocation

At this point that would be 204,213 for whatever tiny range you need.

Please send me a patch for devices.txt and update accordingly,
otherwise no objections.

Alan
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