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

Atsushi Nemoto anemo at mba.ocn.ne.jp
Fri Apr 6 01:49:39 EST 2007


On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:18:12 -0400, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> > Maybe I should have sent "request" (not patch) mail to
> > device at lanana.org first?
> 
> Well, that's what it says right underneath the line in devices.txt which
> says:
> 	**** DEVICE DRIVERS AUTHORS PLEASE READ THIS ****
> 
> It goes on to say...
> 
> "Third, please don't assume that the distributed version of the list is
> up to date.  Due to the number of registrations I have to maintain it
> in "batch mode", so there is likely additional registrations that
> haven't been listed yet."

Thank you, I see.  I'll revoke the patch in -mm tree and send a
request for minor numbers.

---
Atsushi Nemoto



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