Re: device major numbers

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Feb 28, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Toru Nishimura wrote:

> Frank Wille said;
> 
>>> either way, 144 is wrong.
>> Ok. So you would suggest to allocate 100 for all powerpc ports?
> 
> arch/powerpc/conf/major.powerpc contains "gtmpsc" for Marvell
> Discovery PPC system controller which is particular for a very
> specific platform.  Then, it'd be forgiving to cope with having
> "char 100" line in the powerpc common definition.

As the overall powerpc port maintainer, I'd rather see all new
majors be allocated from major.powerpc.  This is that eventually
all powerpc ports can use the same major number and that will
eliminate one reason why we can't have a shared userland.