Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:00:19 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices |
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Timur Tabi wrote: > Dan Malek wrote: > >> I'd shoot that down, too. Using udev in an >> embedded, reliable environment is very >> troublesome. Although, products I've >> developed using more than 4 UARTs had >> some custom /dev work done to it just >> to get everything mapped. My only >> concern is we don't add a new range for >> QE UARTs, that we use the same minors >> for both CPM and QE. > > Then it appears that the only possible solution is to assign numbers 46 > - 53 to the CPM/QE and accept that it overlaps with the Altix. Is > everyone okay with that? >
I would much rather see these devices moved to a different minor range.
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