linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1401270957450.1652@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:03:47 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...hedpixels.co.uk>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@...aro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
	jslaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to
 device probe

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:30:00PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:45:05AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Peter handed it on. Try using git log on Documentation/devices.txt. It
> > > > still gets updates.
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps you'd care to stick to reality and fix the tree instead of trying
> > > > to excuse the mess ?
> > > 
> > > Perhaps returning to reality might be advantageous rather than trying
> > > to repeat statements which can't have any bearing on this - especially
> > > as the git history which you're referring to only goes back to 2.6.12-rc2,
> > > and this predates 2.6.12-rc2 by a long shot.
> > > 
> > > > More importantly certain folks need to stop abusing static numbers
> > > > allocated properly. Repeating it having made a total hash of it before
> > > > is dismal.
> > > 
> > > And if you continue these stupid accusations which have no basis at all,
> > > we're going to get into a real big argument, because you are soo _wrong_
> > > on that point.  I was always the one arguing /against/ the re-use of
> > > existing major/minor numbers.  I was the one arguing /against/ Nicolas'
> > > patches to make every serial port appear in the 4,64 ttyS namespace.
> > 
> > If you remember correctly, that was my attempt at making serial port 
> > minor assignment to be dynamic... just like everything else is today.  
> > And it seemed to me that you thought this was a good idea.
> 
> I may have thought that a dynamic space for serial devices was a good
> idea, but what I was referring to above was specifically the
> implementation.

Oh I do not dispute the fact that the implementation at the time was not 
up to needed standards.  That would have been fixed eventually though, 
if it hadn't been for the policy based objection we received.  At which 
point this effort was simply dropped.


Nicolas
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