On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:57:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I don't need it, but someone might. > > Why ? No idea. But why you asked in the first place? :-) I thought you have had some scenario when static major number is necessary. > > 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. > > We got past the 256/256 limit some time ago. Oh? Then using dynamic major makes a lot of sense, 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
