lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 1 06:33:38 EST 2007


On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>
>>> Why don't we allocate the 2nd group of four as well, just at a  
>>> new location.  They'll be discontinuous, but at least we'll have  
>>> support for all 8.
>>>
>> Right, it means two tty driver structures, but that's not a problem.
>
> Eh, I'm not crazy about that.  That means that I have to complicate  
> my driver because someone else screwed up a long time ago.

If not you someone else.  The cost in the driver is small compared to  
fixing up all the distro's and such.  If you don't provide this  
change someone else will.

- k



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