Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:48:00AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Russell" == Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for the slow reply, I've been away all weekend...
>>
>> >> Comments and suggestions are welcome. I'm especially wondering about
>> >> the fact that I'm hijacking the device nodes used by the mpc52xx_uart
>> >> driver ..
>>
>> Russell> That's for the mpc52xx folk to comment about. I personally
>> Russel> don't like> it.
>>
>> What do you say Sylvain? Reusing device nodes seems pretty common
>> (pxa.c, at91_serial.c, ..), and I cannot imagine anyone making a
>> system with uartlite and mpc52xx UARTs ..
>>
>
> Actually they're wishing they hadn't because they can't interoperate
> with standard 16550-based ports without resorting to nasty hacks.
> As such they're _both_ transitioning away from using the major 4
> space.
>
Yes, I confirm that using the major 4 space is really a bad idea. The
mpc52xx driver
did this, up until the point of people reported very annoying problems
when pcmcia
serial card were presents ;)
I guess the point is : Yes obtaining official minors is not that fast
(depends on 1 guy
apparently and he's busy ;) but it will save you troubles later.
Sylvain
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