Messages in this thread | | | From | Kumar Gala <> | Subject | Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:18:21 -0600 |
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On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Dan Malek wrote:
> > On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> I would much rather see these devices moved to a different minor >> range. > > No. We just did that all too recently, and > i don't know why the minors didn't get > allocated properly. I don't want to have to > update all of our embedded software distributions > just because someone doesn't like minor > numbers that aren't causing trouble. > If we allocate unique spaces for all of the > possible UART variations, there isn't going > to be enough space. > > Just allocate the four slots and we'll deal with > anything above this in custom products. Using > more than four of these processor resources > as UARTs isn't likely to happen because there > won't be anything left for the interesting > communication ports.
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.
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