Re: [PATCH] Documentation: devices.txt: reconcile serial/ucc_uart minor numers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jul 25 2023 - 13:27:40 EST


On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:33:41PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Reconcile devices.txt with serial/ucc_uart.c regarding device number
> assignments. ucc_uart.c supports 4 ports and uses minor devnums
> 46-49, so update devices.txt with that info.
> Then update ucc_uart.c's reference to the location of the devices.txt
> list in the kernel source tree.
>
> Fixes: d7584ed2b994 ("[POWERPC] qe-uart: add support for Freescale QUICCEngine UART")
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 2 +-
> drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Very nice, thanks for catching this, I'll go queue it up.

Actually, how did you notice this? I don't think the devices.txt file
is up to date at all anymore, and odds are, other things are wrong in it
too.

thanks,

greg k-h