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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:01:50 -0400
From: David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: The Serial Layer
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:49:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Is anyone currently looking at fixing this before I start applying
> extreme violence ? 

While you're at it, could you patch it up so we can have more than one
serial device again?  I tracked down a bug a month ago having to do
with the pmac_zilog driver freaking out because it tried to 

  uart_register(major=TTY_MAJOR, minor=64, nr=foo)

and someone else had gotten there first.  It boils down to a call
to register_chrdev_region(), which fails if the requested space is
taken, instead of looking past the claimed device numbers for some
more empty ones...

-dte