From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
joy@entuzijast.net
Subject: Re: Allow 8250 to work on sparc.
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:51:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080915.115143.62965548.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080915172211.6751bb17@the-village.bc.nu>
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:22:11 +0100
> > At the user level, there is no difference between a sun zilog serial port,
> > an 8250 serial port or a USB serial port so these should be allocated
> > using the same allocation system.
>
> That isn't strictly true.
>
> > For me, it would also simplify the issue of trying to work what devive to
> > look for when I plug in a new USB serial port device. It would be the new
> > /dev/ttyS<x> to appear in /dev.
>
> Naming is a private matter for udev anyway, independant of numbering for
> major/minor
True. But I think there is some merit in having such a generic
allocator for the current users of the ttySX minor space.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-15 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-13 4:18 [PATCH 0/2]: " David Miller
2008-09-15 14:26 ` Mark Fortescue
2008-09-15 16:22 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-15 18:51 ` Mark Fortescue
2008-09-16 10:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-16 13:15 ` Mark Fortescue
2008-09-15 18:51 ` David Miller [this message]
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