[PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally.

Atsushi Nemoto anemo at mba.ocn.ne.jp
Fri Apr 6 01:09:13 EST 2007


On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:47:15 -0400, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.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 at lanana.org, and some others.

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

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Atsushi Nemoto



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