From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754185AbYIOSwB (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:52:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753503AbYIOSvu (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:51:50 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45074 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753484AbYIOSvt (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:51:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080915.115143.62965548.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. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080915172211.6751bb17@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20080912.211854.102505246.davem@davemloft.net> <20080915172211.6751bb17@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / 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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Cox 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 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.