From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 03:24:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 03:23:54 -0400 Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.16]:31751 "EHLO mailout00.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 03:23:49 -0400 Date: 16 May 2001 09:17:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <80x0j$9mw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <01051602593001.00406@starship> Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh6 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <01051602593001.00406@starship> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips) wrote on 16.05.01 in <01051602593001.00406@starship>: > On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected > > serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. > > There are well-defined rules for the first four on PC's. The ttySx > better match the labels the OEM put on the box. Sorry, but that turns out not to be the case. There are some rules for devices called COMx (x=1..4, ports much more than interrupts[1]), but I haven't ever seen a box that had a "ttySx" label from the manufacturer. And you can easily renumber those; the BIOS uses a 4-entry lookup table for the ports. [1] COM1=3F8, COM2=2F8, COM3=3E8, COM2=2E8 MfG Kai