Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for pl010 and sh-sci

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:26:32PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> When testing on a Renesas board with the PL010 serial driver enabled
> serial output broke. Turns out the minor device numbers for both
> drivers happen to overlap, causing whichever driver happened to be the
> second one to register to fail.

How the **** has the SH serial driver ended up with overlapping device
numbers?

What happened to our maintained list of allocated major/minor device
numbers, which is supposed to stop crap like this happening?

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