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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
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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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