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SubjectRe: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices
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.

-hpa
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