[PATCH] Documentation: devices.txt: reconcile serial/ucc_uart minor numers

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 26 03:27:31 AEST 2023


On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:33:41PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Reconcile devices.txt with serial/ucc_uart.c regarding device number
> assignments. ucc_uart.c supports 4 ports and uses minor devnums
> 46-49, so update devices.txt with that info.
> Then update ucc_uart.c's reference to the location of the devices.txt
> list in the kernel source tree.
> 
> Fixes: d7584ed2b994 ("[POWERPC] qe-uart: add support for Freescale QUICCEngine UART")
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
> Cc: Timur Tabi <timur at kernel.org>
> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt |    2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c         |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Very nice, thanks for catching this, I'll go queue it up.

Actually, how did you notice this?  I don't think the devices.txt file
is up to date at all anymore, and odds are, other things are wrong in it
too.

thanks,

greg k-h


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