From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:38:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:38:49 -0400 Received: from mailhst2.its.tudelft.nl ([130.161.34.250]:12301 "EHLO mailhst2.its.tudelft.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:38:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:34:56 +0200 From: Erik Mouw To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Message-ID: <20010516133455.C902@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> In-Reply-To: <01051602593001.00406@starship> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01051602593001.00406@starship>; from phillips@bonn-fries.net on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:59:30AM +0200 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:59:30AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected > > serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. > > There are well-defined rules for the first four on PC's. The ttySx > better match the labels the OEM put on the box. Nico's point is that there is a lot of linux beyond PCs. My LART[1] has three serial ports which I didn't label at all. The official SA1100 serial driver has /dev/ttySA[0-2] allocated. Other ARM systems use /dev/ttyS0. Guess what happens when you want to install debian-arm on an SA1100 system. A serial device registry like we have for the sound cards would be most welcome. Erik [1] StrongARM SA1100 embedded board, http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/