Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 11:14:33 EST


Dan Malek wrote:

Don't worry about it for now. We'll just keep this in
mind when we make a major change someday in
the future. We may have a better solution then.

Ok, what about udev? If a user is running udev, which supposedly doesn't care about minor numbers, won't the user still be limited to 4 UARTS? If so, is there a way for the driver to detect udev and allow 8 UARTS?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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