From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org (dspnet.fr.eu.org [213.186.44.138]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B596DDE24 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:45:41 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:20:53 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. Message-ID: <20070404122053.GA10599@dspnet.fr.eu.org> References: <20070404022828.5c9b97f3@the-village.bc.nu> <20070404024400.56d016e1@the-village.bc.nu> <20070403.185026.26966290.davem@davemloft.net> <20070404121434.73d01e7e@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070404121434.73d01e7e@the-village.bc.nu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, David Miller List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:14:34PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > If you want hierarchy, create it: > > > > /sys/blah/serial/controllerX/portY > > > > and keeping them all under the ttyS? major keeps the simple > > cases working sanely too. > > Currently yes you could do that, but that would break all the back > compatibility. libata's hd->s* does that too, with probably a much larger impact. Could udev be useful for once and make back compatibility symlinks? Unifying serial the same way disks, cdroms, network, etc got unified has some charm. OG.