Re: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 28, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Mathiasen, Torben wrote:

> > Mathiasen, Torben wrote:
> > > Got around looking at this one. I'm fine with this approach, but the
> > > CPM5 fix looks wrong. Shouldn't it be:
> > >
> > > 49 = /dev/ttyCPM3		PPC CPM (SCC or SMC) - port 3
> > >
> > > instead?
> >
> > Well, how many CPM devices can exist?  If there are really 6 ports
> > possible, they need minors up to 51.
> >
> > Also, if QE really is just CPM v3, and they share the same minors,  
> > why
> > change the name?
>
> Assuming QE has 4 entries, I would expect CPM to be the same. But we
> need verification of that. If it needs 6, we are in more trouble.

I think it really is 6 for the current CPM, and I don't see why we  
its not 8 for QE, Timur?

- k
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