Re: [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers;optionally.

From: Atsushi Nemoto
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 11:09:42 EST


On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:47:15 -0400, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is major 204 minor 192 already allocated?
>
> Of course. The reason it took so long to provide this patch after the
> 'pmac_zilog doesn't load' bug got reported was because I was waiting for
> the new allocation.
>
> > Few weeks ago, I sent a patch to allocate 192...199 for other serial
> > driver
>
> Were those numbers assigned to you or did you just make them up?

What I did is just send a patch includeing devices.txt changes to
lkml, device@xxxxxxxxxx, and some others.

Maybe I should have sent "request" (not patch) mail to
device@xxxxxxxxxx first?

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Atsushi Nemoto
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