[PATCH 1/5] fsi: Add new central chardev support

2018-07-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The various FSI devices (sbefifo, occ, scom, more to come) currently use misc devices. This is problematic as the minor device space for misc is limited and there can be a lot of them. Also it limits our ability to move them to a dedicated /dev/fsi directory or to be smart about device naming and

[PATCH 1/5] fsi: Add new central chardev support

2018-07-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The various FSI devices (sbefifo, occ, scom, more to come) currently use misc devices. This is problematic as the minor device space for misc is limited and there can be a lot of them. Also it limits our ability to move them to a dedicated /dev/fsi directory or to be smart about device naming and