On Feb 28, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Since you say no one has ever used more than 4 UARTs, there are two options:
People have used more than 4, but we just allocated the additional /dev entries to cover them. I know of only one time this has happened. It's such a custom case that the other device names didn't matter.
- Cap the driver at 4 UARTs;
Let's do this, but design the code to allow more by just changing a #define.
Just randomly using some extra minors that aren't assigned to you isn't such a great idea.
Maybe for a desktop or generic server where you don't know what's going to be configured, but it's not unusual to do so with custom embedded systems. The small experimental or user allocations often don't cover what is needed, so we just grab some allocation from a device that isn't ever going to be used on the system. Thanks. -- Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/