From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992514AbXDDANb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:13:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992511AbXDDANb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:13:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36730 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992514AbXDDANa (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:13:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller Cc: flar@allandria.com, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403212928.GA12951@cynthia.pants.nu> <1175644642.10567.31.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:12:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1175645568.10567.42.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 (2.10.0-7.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:02 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Sparc does the same thing, it's a common convention and you really > should not break it. I thought that argument was lost many years ago. It _used_ to be a common convention; we got better. > Every powerpc and sparc system out that is using ttyS0 with dynamic > minor numbers being allocated. I really think this should be > generalized instead of breaking serial on every powerpc machine out > there. Nobody's breaking anything. The patch _fixes_ serial, and allows powerpc machines to use both z8530 and 8250 ports at the same time; something which has been broken for a long time. -- dwmw2