On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:47:34PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > But yes I agree about the idiom, but a definite NAK to any attempts to > plaster over this grand screwup by crapping in the tty core. Your turd, > deal with it locally in the ARM code if you can't apply common sense and > just go dynamic. I believe at the time there was no one maintaining the device list to _do_ that allocation - AMBA PL011 came along in 2005 after (I believe) hpa stopped looking after that list. So, please tell me how a number could be allocated properly without the device numbers list being maintained? I've no problem with going dynamic, and I suggest that you get a sense of perspective rather than just spouting rubbish from on high. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: 5.8Mbps down 500kbps up. Estimation in database were 13.1 to 19Mbit for a good line, about 7.5+ for a bad. Estimate before purchase was "up to 13.2Mbit". -- 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
