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 19:22:59 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.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, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:18:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I guess the sane maximum number of ports would be 8, but it is still
> > possible to do hundreds of them.
> 
> In that case you may just want to allocate a dynamic major instead - or
> do you actually need a fixed major/minor for your boot up ?

I don't need it, but someone might.

Plus, it doesn't solve anything as there are only 256 minor numbers. ;-)
If we ever want  to support the insane number of Altera UARTs, we'll
have to solve it very differently. For now, I'd vote for keeping it
simple.

Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
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