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

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:51:36 -0600

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?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale