On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 02:33:19PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 04:58:22PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The UAPI has a global list of unique numbers for different port types.
> > The commit
> > a2d6a987bfe4 ("serial: 8250: Add new port type for TI DA8xx/66AK2x")
> > introduced a new port type and brought the collision with two other port
> > types.
> >
> > Reuse 95 for it instead.
>
> I hate this "global userspace list", is there any good reason it is used
> or needed at all? Why are we adding new ids here when no one uses them?
> Can we just delete the thing?
Oh, this doesn't mean I don't like these patches, I do, and I've applied
them now, thanks.
greg k-h
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