From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992744AbXDDInk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:43:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992752AbXDDInk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:43:40 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38837 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992744AbXDDInj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:43:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070404.014330.91315500.davem@davemloft.net> To: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, 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: <20070404083803.GA13134@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1175666635.2932.17.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070404.011208.120446173.davem@davemloft.net> <20070404083803.GA13134@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> 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: Russell King Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0100 > However, despite people pressing for it, there's yet to be a *sane* > *technical* *solution* to the problem. All I've seen so far is one > bad hack. Well the "bad hack" we use on sparc gives usable serial ports, properly ordered and using /dev/ttyS0, with a proper matching console selection.