Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:38:54 +0100 | From | "Mathiasen, Torben" <> |
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> 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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