From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sunset.davemloft.net (unknown [74.93.104.97]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1B9DDEBD for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:47:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070403.184727.26533881.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070404023637.65c56227@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20070404021924.71e87580@the-village.bc.nu> <20070403.182125.77058566.davem@davemloft.net> <20070404023637.65c56227@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Alan Cox Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:36:37 +0100 > I've no fundamental problem with S0->console port 1, S1 -> console port 2 > etc, but the general notion that type and positional information doesn't > matter is complete and utter bollocks when you try and apply it to any > serious serial setup. If you want geographical type device specification hierarchies, to sanely manage that kind of stuff, they belong via sysfs or something userside like that. Using a bunch of different majors does not help the situation you speak of. What if I have 1,000 cyclades cards in my system? The cyclades serial major number helps me diddly in that case. What about having 82 8250's?