Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Randall <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 14:30:10 -0500 (CDT) |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> writes: > > 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. > > Actually it would be better to have the OEM put a label in the > firmware, and then have a way to query the device for it's label. > > The legacy rules are nice but serial ports are done with superio chips > now. And superio chips are almost all ISA PNP chips without device > enumeration, and isolation.
Not all serial ports are superio chips. There's all kinds of serial ports on all kinds of different busses being supported under Linux. The company I work for supports serial ports on ISA, PCI, SCSI, Ethernet, and USB at the moment...
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