Re: [PATCH 5/8] altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UARTand 8250 ports together

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Oct 01 2010 - 09:30:40 EST


On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:22:07 +0400
Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This fixes tty name and major number conflicts. The major number
> 204 is used across many platform-specific serial drivers, so we
> use that.

204 is allocated in small chunks to specific low volume devices so you
need a proper minor allocation

At this point that would be 204,213 for whatever tiny range you need.

Please send me a patch for devices.txt and update accordingly,
otherwise no objections.

Alan
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