Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 13:34:56 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:59:30AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected > > serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. > > There are well-defined rules for the first four on PC's. The ttySx > better match the labels the OEM put on the box.
Nico's point is that there is a lot of linux beyond PCs. My LART[1] has three serial ports which I didn't label at all. The official SA1100 serial driver has /dev/ttySA[0-2] allocated. Other ARM systems use /dev/ttyS0. Guess what happens when you want to install debian-arm on an SA1100 system. A serial device registry like we have for the sound cards would be most welcome.
Erik
[1] StrongARM SA1100 embedded board, http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/
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