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

From: Atsushi Nemoto
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 11:49:59 EST


On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:18:12 -0400, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Maybe I should have sent "request" (not patch) mail to
> > device@xxxxxxxxxx first?
>
> Well, that's what it says right underneath the line in devices.txt which
> says:
> **** DEVICE DRIVERS AUTHORS PLEASE READ THIS ****
>
> It goes on to say...
>
> "Third, please don't assume that the distributed version of the list is
> up to date. Due to the number of registrations I have to maintain it
> in "batch mode", so there is likely additional registrations that
> haven't been listed yet."

Thank you, I see. I'll revoke the patch in -mm tree and send a
request for minor numbers.

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Atsushi Nemoto
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