Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:58:09 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. |
| |
David Woodhouse writes:
> A GUI PPP dialer should be > listing the available serial ports in the system whatever their names > are.
How do you propose they do that? Neither kppp nor gnome-ppp seem to be able to do that currently. Gnome-ppp offers just /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS[0123]. Kppp offers those plus a whole pile of others, but neither found the /dev/ttyPZ[01] that I get with your patch applied. Gnome-ppp at least let me type in /dev/ttyPZ0, but kppp didn't seem to have that facility.
> And nobody _forces_ you to use the name ttyPZ0. If you really want, you > can call it ttyS0.... just mknod /dev/ttyS0 204 192
Sure I can do that, but that's beyond a non-technical user, who is precisely the person who won't know (and shouldn't have to know) that their computer has an 85C30 chip rather than a 16C550, or even what those numbers refer to.
Paul. - 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/
| |