From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:14:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]:7043 "EHLO relay01.mx.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023388AbXLCOOe (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:14:34 +0000 Received: from lagash (intrt.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay01.mx.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3931F48BE4; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:14:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IzC42-0005OA-Uq; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:14:26 +0000 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:14:26 +0000 From: Thiemo Seufer To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Rename Sibyte duart devices? Message-ID: <20071203141426.GI617@networkno.de> References: <20071203130818.GA6466@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071203130818.GA6466@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17670 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: > Devices created by udev have been named duart? instead of the common > ttyS?. This is a nuisance because it requires changes to all sorts of > config files such as /etc/inittab, /etc/securetty etc. to work. I > suggest to kill the problem by the root by something like the below > patch. Comments? Debian uses such a patch since forever to avoid all the trouble. Thiemo