lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
    Mathiasen, Torben 
    Torben.Mathiasen at hp.com
       
    Fri Mar  2 00:38:54 EST 2007
    
    
  
> We are making a very complicated problem
> out of nothing.  This hasn't caused any problems
> in the past, and changing the existing names and
> minors will cause problems for everyone today.
> 
> Just leave it alone, fix up the documentation,
> and have the driver print some warning if it
> allocates more than 4 UARTs.
> 
Dan has a point here. Now I clearly can't comment on how bad 8 is
needed, but since this has been like this for a while, I'll have to
assume 4 is covering most cases.
Moving things to a different range _will_ be much worse for distro
maintainers than driver developers. And I bet the latter is going to be
minor work as things has been like this for a while.
But we can still allocate 4 more at a different minor that distro's can
_choose_ to use. Consider it an enhancement to the 4 we have had in the
past.
Torben
    
    
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