RE: lanana: Add major/minor entries for PPC QE UART devices

From: Mathiasen, Torben
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 08:17:50 EST


> Mathiasen, Torben wrote:
> >
> > Got around looking at this one. I'm fine with this approach, but the
> > CPM5 fix looks wrong. Shouldn't it be:
> >
> > 49 = /dev/ttyCPM3 PPC CPM (SCC or SMC) - port 3
> >
> > instead?
> >
>
> Well, how many CPM devices can exist? If there are really 6 ports
> possible, they need minors up to 51.
>
> Also, if QE really is just CPM v3, and they share the same minors, why
> change the name?
>

Assuming QE has 4 entries, I would expect CPM to be the same. But we
need verification of that. If it needs 6, we are in more trouble.

Torben
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