Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:32:42 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:17 -0700, David Miller wrote: > 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 :-))))
heh, maybe I can use your forked/sparc version :-)
Ben.
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