lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Fri Mar 2 02:55:54 EST 2007
Dan Malek wrote:
> People have used more than 4, but we just
> allocated the additional /dev entries to cover
> them. I know of only one time this has happened.
> It's such a custom case that the other device
> names didn't matter.
Ok guys, I need a consensus here. Are we going to allocate a second block of 4 minor
numbers for the QE/CPM UART or not?
My driver already has a macro that limits the number of UARTS to 4, and it just uses minor
numbers 47 through (47 + UCC_MAX_UART - 1). So my driver can easily be modified to spill
into the Altic's range if some custom board needs it.
I'll add a second TTY struct to handle the 2nd set of minor numbers if and only if
devices-2.6+.txt is updated with that information.
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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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