From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992663AbXDDFuK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:50:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992664AbXDDFuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:50:09 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58761 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992663AbXDDFuI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:50:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070403.225006.119275067.davem@davemloft.net> To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: paulus@samba.org, 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. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1175663999.2932.8.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20070404022544.59b022a6@the-village.bc.nu> <17939.10130.687893.167511@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175663999.2932.8.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:19:59 -0400 > I don't see why that 'should' be the case. Certainly it _isn't_ the case > on most supported platforms -- we have separate device numbers, and > names, for most types of ports. There's only one or two drivers which > abuse ttySn for anything other than 8250 ports. sunsu, sunzilog, pmac_zilog, sunsab, etc. The list is longer than you think. In fact the convention is very well established.