Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:47:27 -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 02:36:37 +0100
> I've no fundamental problem with S0->console port 1, S1 -> console port 2 > etc, but the general notion that type and positional information doesn't > matter is complete and utter bollocks when you try and apply it to any > serious serial setup.
If you want geographical type device specification hierarchies, to sanely manage that kind of stuff, they belong via sysfs or something userside like that.
Using a bunch of different majors does not help the situation you speak of.
What if I have 1,000 cyclades cards in my system? The cyclades serial major number helps me diddly in that case. What about having 82 8250's? - 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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