From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966234AbXDDBRh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:17:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966233AbXDDBRg (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:17:36 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47095 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966235AbXDDBRf (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:17:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070403.181733.27782389.davem@davemloft.net> To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, flar@allandria.com, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1175649192.30879.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> <1175645568.10567.42.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1175649192.30879.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :-))))