From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org (pentafluge.infradead.org [213.146.154.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDD1DDF0F for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:13:34 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403212928.GA12951@cynthia.pants.nu> <1175644642.10567.31.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403.170212.02298297.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:12:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1175645568.10567.42.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:02 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Sparc does the same thing, it's a common convention and you really > should not break it. I thought that argument was lost many years ago. It _used_ to be a common convention; we got better. > Every powerpc and sparc system out that is using ttyS0 with dynamic > minor numbers being allocated. I really think this should be > generalized instead of breaking serial on every powerpc machine out > there. Nobody's breaking anything. The patch _fixes_ serial, and allows powerpc machines to use both z8530 and 8250 ports at the same time; something which has been broken for a long time. -- dwmw2