From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966232AbXDDBdp (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:33:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966242AbXDDBdp (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:33:45 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:52681 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966232AbXDDBdo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:33:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Miller Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, flar@allandria.com, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070403.181733.27782389.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> <1175645568.10567.42.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1175649192.30879.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070403.181733.27782389.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:32:42 +1000 Message-Id: <1175650362.30879.43.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 18:17 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > 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.