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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com
Cc: James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, matthew@wil.cx, greg@kroah.com,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:37:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4301EC0E.6090406@adaptec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9BB4DECD4CFE6D43AA8EA8D768ED51C201AD39@xbl3.ma.emulex.com>

On 08/15/05 20:52, James.Smart@Emulex.Com wrote:
> Actually, I view this as being a little odd...
> 
> What is "0000:00:04:0" in this case ? The "device" is not a serial
> port, which is what the ttyXX back link would lead you to believe.
> Thus, it's a serial port multiplexer that supports up to N ports,
> right ? and wouldn't the more correct representation have been to
> enumerate a device for each serial port ? (e.g. 0000:00:04.0/line0,
> 0000:00:04.0/line1, or similar)
> 
> Think if SCSI used this same style of representation. For example,
> if there was no scsi target device entity, but class entities did
> exist and they just pointed back to the scsi host device entry.
> 
> My vote is to make the multiplexor instantiate each serial line
> as a separate device.

Hi James,

Yes, you're absolutely and completely correct.  I think the same
way as you do.

	Luben


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-16 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-16  0:52 [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object James.Smart
2005-08-16  1:08 ` James Bottomley
2005-08-16 13:41   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-16 13:37 ` Luben Tuikov [this message]
2005-08-16 20:53   ` Russell King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-18 11:32 James.Smart
2005-08-18 11:31 James.Smart
2005-08-16 15:50 James.Smart
2005-08-14 12:42 James.Smart
2005-08-14 14:17 ` James Bottomley
2005-08-13 15:34 James.Smart
2005-08-13 21:39 ` Greg KH
2005-08-13 23:36   ` James Bottomley
2005-08-14  0:42     ` James Bottomley
2005-08-14  1:37       ` James Bottomley
2005-08-14 15:02   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-08-14 22:25     ` Russell King
2005-08-15  0:43       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-08-15  8:32         ` Russell King
2005-08-18  5:21           ` Greg KH
2005-08-18  6:30             ` Russell King
2005-08-18  6:41               ` Greg KH
2005-08-18  6:50                 ` Russell King
2005-08-18  7:04                   ` Greg KH
2005-08-18 11:43                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-08-15 22:41     ` James Bottomley
2005-08-18  5:23       ` Greg KH
2005-08-18  6:37         ` Greg KH
2005-08-18 19:50           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-31 21:43             ` Greg KH
2005-09-01  5:57               ` Dmitry Torokhov

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