Re: MacSerial and Serial driver cohabitation

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>]

>Hi all,
>
>On  17 Jul, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
>> I'd say agree on a fixed order of probing, allocate minors in that order
>> (with the possible exception of allowing a driver to allocate specific
>> minors out of order if someone wants to make sure their driver always
>> gets the same minors).
>
>Whoever fixes this problem should be decorated, and a statue put up in
>his memory. ;-)
>
>But if anyone is brave enough to attempt it, don't forget that there are
>_two_ places where serial ports are probed for: serial console init very
>early in the booting, and driver init much later in the boot process.
>Those two should be guaranteed to be in sync re minor assignment/device
>naming. Right now, that's not the case.

My current rsync tree contains a fix done by Andreas Tobler that helps
cohabitation of macserial and legacy serial. I know Paul and Theodore
have been working on a more definitive fix, I don't know it's status however,

Ben.


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