On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:18:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I guess the sane maximum number of ports would be 8, but it is still > > possible to do hundreds of them. > > In that case you may just want to allocate a dynamic major instead - or > do you actually need a fixed major/minor for your boot up ? I don't need it, but someone might. Plus, it doesn't solve anything as there are only 256 minor numbers. ;-) If we ever want to support the insane number of Altera UARTs, we'll have to solve it very differently. For now, I'd vote for keeping it simple. Thanks, -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
