Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:17:33 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:12 +1000
> It worked before the new serial core, we had a "tweak" in the old 8250 > driver to be able to share minors, but that got busted when Russell > rewrote the whole thing. I remember asking him back when he still was > the serial maintainer, and he refused to bring back some sharing of > minors.
Fork the 8250 driver like I did on Sparc so you can get the dynamic minor behavior back :-)))) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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