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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:34:53 -0400
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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.

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dwmw2