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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Dan Malek wrote:
>
> > I'd shoot that down, too.  Using udev in an
> > embedded, reliable environment is very
> > troublesome.  Although, products I've
> > developed using more than 4 UARTs had
> > some custom /dev work done to it just
> > to get everything mapped.  My only
> > concern is we don't add a new range for
> > QE UARTs, that we use the same minors
> > for both CPM and QE.
>
> Then it appears that the only possible solution is to assign numbers 46 
> - 53 to the CPM/QE and accept that it overlaps with the Altix.  Is 
> everyone okay with that?

I would much rather see these devices moved to a different minor range.

	-hpa
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