Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:43:08 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t |
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:16:37PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > A major for 'disk' generically makes total sense. Classing raid controllers > > as 'scsi' isnt neccessarily accurate. A major for 'serial ports' would also > > solve a lot of misery > > But it might also cause just as much misery, specifically because things > move around too much.
Actually, it probably won't. As has already been said in the past, the names are effectively a user space issue, but major numbers aren't.
I for one would like to see a major number for all 'serial ports' whether they be embedded ARM serial ports _or_ standard 16550 ports, but at the moment its not easily acheivable without introducing more mess.
Ted indicated to me a while ago (just after I wrote serial_core.c for yet-another-type-of-ARM-serial-port) his visions of the direction serial stuff should take in 2.5; this is obviously one of the things that I'm keen to discuss and solve in 2.5.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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