Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> *However* you still run into the issue that you do not know how many
> serial ports you will need to register a tty driver with the tty layer.
> Solve that technical problem and the idea of having a single namespace
> for chosen serial ports and 8250 ports suddenly becomes realistic.

Ok, so that I understand correctly, your problem is with the
tty_register_driver interface as used in
serial_core:uart_register_driver, correct?

Looking at the function, I understand why.
{alloc,register}_chrdev_region is very, very not designed to be
fully dynamic it seems.

  OG.

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