From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk (caramon.arm.linux.org.uk [217.147.92.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C27DDE20 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:00:30 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:00:16 +0100 From: Russell King To: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. Message-ID: <20070404090016.GC13134@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1175666635.2932.17.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070404.011208.120446173.davem@davemloft.net> <20070404083803.GA13134@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070404.014330.91315500.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070404.014330.91315500.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: Russell King Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Russell King > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0100 > > > However, despite people pressing for it, there's yet to be a *sane* > > *technical* *solution* to the problem. All I've seen so far is one > > bad hack. > > Well the "bad hack" we use on sparc gives usable serial ports, > properly ordered and using /dev/ttyS0, with a proper matching > console selection. Well yes, but it seems to have code in the architecture's early command line parsing to parse the "console=" argument to set this magical "serial_console" variable. Is this an approach you recommend for all architectures? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: