Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:12:48 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:02 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Sparc does the same thing, it's a common convention and you really > should not break it.
I thought that argument was lost many years ago. It _used_ to be a common convention; we got better.
> Every powerpc and sparc system out that is using ttyS0 with dynamic > minor numbers being allocated. I really think this should be > generalized instead of breaking serial on every powerpc machine out > there.
Nobody's breaking anything. The patch _fixes_ serial, and allows powerpc machines to use both z8530 and 8250 ports at the same time; something which has been broken for a long time.
-- dwmw2
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