Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:36:54 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x) |
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Andrew Morton writes: > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > > > > > Instead, it appears that someone broke tty_name(). Here's the > > > > > 2.2 kernel's version: > > > > > > > > That "someone" was me, and I changed it from broken to fixed. > > > > > > > > > > Look at serial.c: > > > > > > #if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE > 0x2032D && defined(CONFIG_DEVFS_FS)) > > > serial_driver.name = "tts/%d"; > > > #else > > > serial_driver.name = "ttyS"; > > > #endif > > > > > > tty_name will just print "ttyS". So the transition for this case > > > was fixed->broken. > > > > Why exactly is just "ttyS" broken? > > umm.. Because it doesn't tell the user which serial port the > message pertains to?
Exactly where is it broken? I look at my dmesg output and things look fine.
Regards,
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