From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966223AbXDDBO7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:14:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966224AbXDDBO6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:14:58 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:42657 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966225AbXDDBO5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:14:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Miller Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070403.165657.34759233.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1175610345.2665.15.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17938.57292.870224.132415@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403.165657.34759233.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:58 +1000 Message-Id: <1175649238.30879.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 16:56 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse > Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:28:36 -0400 > > > Abusing the 8250 device numbers prevents the 8250 module from being > > loaded at the same time as pmac_zilog, and means you can't have both > > internal port and PCMCIA or PCI 8250 ports active at the same time. > > Dynamic minor number allocation for ttyS? would allow this > just fine, and that's exactly what we do on sparc as I > explained in another response. If we can get it past whoever is the current 8250 maintainer, then fine with me. Back then, I hit a brick wall. Ben.