From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161227AbXDEGFo (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 02:05:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161228AbXDEGFo (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 02:05:44 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:49381 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161227AbXDEGFn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 02:05:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17940.37291.211960.566580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:05:31 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: David Woodhouse Cc: Russell King , Theodore Tso , "H. Peter Anvin" , David Miller , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, flar@allandria.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. In-Reply-To: <1175716215.2774.52.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <1175663999.2932.8.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17939.15726.114059.679277@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175666635.2932.17.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070404.011208.120446173.davem@davemloft.net> <20070404083803.GA13134@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070404122154.GF31973@thunk.org> <4613CF6A.2090407@zytor.com> <20070404174153.GI31973@thunk.org> <20070404181531.GA9388@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1175716215.2774.52.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse writes: > And you always will be. The amount of pain involved in implementing > this, just so that people can call their serial port 'ttyS0', is _far_ > more than it's worth. It could be done, but it's a completely pointless > waste of time and effort. Avoiding breaking userspace is a completely pointless waste of time and effort? Linux is ready for the desktop? Suuuure it is... Paul.