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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:34:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175704494.2774.33.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404162234.GS4922@austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 11:22 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> The biggest problem would seem to be that the assignment would
> depend on the detection order; there don't seem to be unique 
> id's that would help udev consistently assign device names in 
> consistent order. 

Of course there are. The different types of ports have different device
numbers. As long as we don't do anything silly like putting all the
serial drivers on the same major number, we can tell them apart
relatively well.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03 14:25 [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 20:37 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-03 22:58   ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-03 23:28   ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 21:29     ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-03 23:57       ` David Woodhouse
     [not found]         ` <200704032210 02.GA13210@cynthia.pants.nu>
2007-04-03 22:10         ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04  0:54           ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:09             ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04  1:38               ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04  2:10               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-04  1:57                 ` David Lang
2007-04-04  8:51               ` Russell King
2007-04-04  9:48                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 16:09                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 16:22               ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04 16:34                 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-04-04 17:38                   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04  1:16             ` David Miller
2007-04-04  1:28               ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04  1:07                 ` David Lang
2007-04-04  1:44                   ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04  1:23                     ` David Lang
2007-04-04  1:32                       ` David Lang
2007-04-04 16:07                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 17:50                       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04  1:50                     ` David Miller
2007-04-04 11:14                       ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 12:20                         ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-04  1:48                   ` David Miller
2007-04-04  3:07                 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-04-11 16:30                   ` Benny Amorsen
2007-04-12 15:34                     ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-13  2:45                       ` Gerhard Mack
2007-04-13  2:24                         ` David Lang
2007-04-13  8:09                           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04  0:02         ` David Miller
2007-04-04  0:12           ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 22:14             ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04  1:13             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04  1:17               ` David Miller
2007-04-04  1:32                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04  0:01       ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2007-04-04  1:25       ` [PATCH] " Alan Cox
2007-04-04  4:20         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04  5:19           ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04  5:50             ` David Miller
2007-04-04  7:04               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 13:43                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-04-04  7:52               ` Russell King
2007-04-04  8:41                 ` David Miller
2007-04-04  5:53             ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04  6:03               ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04  6:31                 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 14:19                   ` [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 23:48                     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 12:45                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 22:53                         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 22:59                           ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 14:31                     ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 14:47                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 15:09                         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 15:18                           ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 15:49                             ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 15:56                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04  8:12                 ` [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers David Miller
2007-04-04  8:38                   ` Russell King
2007-04-04  8:43                     ` David Miller
2007-04-04  9:00                       ` Russell King
2007-04-04 19:58                         ` David Miller
2007-04-04 12:21                     ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-04 16:10                       ` Russell King
2007-04-04 16:16                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 16:25                         ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 17:41                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-04 18:15                           ` Russell King
2007-04-04 19:50                             ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05  6:05                               ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05  8:50                                 ` Russell King
2007-04-05 16:15                             ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-05 21:41                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-03 23:56     ` David Miller
2007-04-04  1:13       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04  6:58     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 14:16       ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:55   ` David Miller
2007-04-04  1:19     ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04  1:21       ` David Miller
2007-04-04  1:36         ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04  1:47           ` David Miller
2007-04-04  7:47         ` Russell King
2007-04-04  9:55           ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 16:06             ` Russell King
2007-04-04  6:58     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-08-14 11:49   ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-14 11:53     ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-14 16:24       ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-04  7:55 ` Olaf Hering

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