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

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:13:57 -0600

Dan Malek wrote:

> Don't worry about it for now.  We'll just keep this in
> mind when we make a major change someday in
> the future.  We may have a better solution then.

Ok, what about udev?  If a user is running udev, which supposedly doesn't care about minor 
numbers, won't the user still be limited to 4 UARTS?  If so, is there a way for the driver 
to detect udev and allow 8 UARTS?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale