Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:50:26 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:44:00 +0100
> Well the better designed serial setups on Linux use numbering so that you > can look on the multiplexor boxes and know straight away what the > correlation between port number and name is. In the same was as "S0 is > console 1" is nice to have its also nice to have "mux 1 port 4" easily > calculable not think
If you want hierarchy, create it:
/sys/blah/serial/controllerX/portY
and keeping them all under the ttyS? major keeps the simple cases working sanely too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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