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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for pl010 and sh-sci

From Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for pl010 and sh-sci
Date 2017-03-24 17:50 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:26:32PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> When testing on a Renesas board with the PL010 serial driver enabled
> serial output broke. Turns out the minor device numbers for both
> drivers happen to overlap, causing whichever driver happened to be the
> second one to register to fail.

How the **** has the SH serial driver ended up with overlapping device
numbers?

What happened to our maintained list of allocated major/minor device
numbers, which is supposed to stop crap like this happening?

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[PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for pl010 and sh-sci Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk> - 2017-03-24 17:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] serial: pl010: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk> - 2017-03-24 17:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: pl010: Move uart_register_driver call to  device probe Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-24 17:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] serial: sh-sci: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk> - 2017-03-24 17:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for  pl010 and sh-sci Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-24 17:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for  pl010 and sh-sci Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-03-26 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move uart_register_driver call to device probe for  pl010 and sh-sci Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-03-26 12:10 +0200

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