Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2013 07:08:21 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/8] serial:st-asc: Add ST ASC driver. |
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Stephen GALLIMORE wrote: > Greg, having looked at this we have concluded that we should just go > dynamic, as others have mentioned with udev on a full system or > devtmpfs on a minimal initramfs system there is no reason to use a > static major/minor. However the view here is that we would prefer to > keep the unique name, as for example the lantiq driver which is also > dynamic does, for the reason previously mentioned regarding PCIe > cards.
Why do you want your own name?
> Is that acceptable?
I would prefer not to use a new serial port name, as this is only going to make it harder for me to delete that name in the next year :)
Sorry,
greg k-h
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