From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966256AbXDDBg2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:36:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966250AbXDDBf6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:35:58 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:58032 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966244AbXDDBf2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:35:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:38:22 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Brad Boyer Cc: David Woodhouse , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. Message-ID: <20070404023822.53aabc1a@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070403230908.GA13471@cynthia.pants.nu> References: <1175610345.2665.15.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17938.57292.870224.132415@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403212928.GA12951@cynthia.pants.nu> <1175644642.10567.31.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403221002.GA13210@cynthia.pants.nu> <1175648051.10567.61.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403230908.GA13471@cynthia.pants.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 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 > my opinion. I do understand that 8250 compatible chips are very common > and are the most likely serial chips to be used with Linux. However, I > will point out that the define is TTY_MAJOR, not 8250_MAJOR. It seems > to me that whoever named it was thinking in more generic terms. The define goes back the very first days of Linux. I doubt whoever named it (Linus I imagine) had even considered that anyone else might be running his terminal emulator at that point.