From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
paulus@samba.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:50:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404175023.GV4922@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0704031817020.21680@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:23:07PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
>
> people working with ~50 serial ports or ethernet ports aren't useing stock
> distros anyway.
??? For "big servers", Suse SLES and RedHat RHEL are the defacto choices,
with Ubuntu a rising star. It doesn't get much more stock than that.
> > Which is also another reason for building the "all serial devices"
> > mapping by using udev, as it can provide multiple simultaneous views. The
> > serial console unfortunately rather breaks that approach as Dave pointed
> > out
>
> I would reverse this. instead of having a bunch of different names and then
> requiring a tool to create sane names from them, start off with a nice nameing
> scheme and have a tool that tells you the under-the-covers details.
Except that udev already exists, and is widely deployed by most distros
to handle the "sane naming" problem. In particular, "sane naming"
becomes hard if devices can be hotplugged, whether they are usb or pci
(e.g. a usb-to-serial converter).
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 14:25 [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 20:37 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-03 22:58 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-03 23:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 21:29 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-03 23:57 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <200704032210 02.GA13210@cynthia.pants.nu>
2007-04-03 22:10 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04 0:54 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:09 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04 1:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 2:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-04 1:57 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 8:51 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 9:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 16:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 16:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04 16:34 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 17:38 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04 1:16 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:07 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 1:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:23 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 1:32 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 16:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 17:50 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2007-04-04 1:50 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 11:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 12:20 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-04 1:48 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 3:07 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-04-11 16:30 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-04-12 15:34 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-13 2:45 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-04-13 2:24 ` David Lang
2007-04-13 8:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 0:02 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 0:12 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 22:14 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04 1:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 1:17 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 0:01 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 1:25 ` [PATCH] " Alan Cox
2007-04-04 4:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 5:19 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 5:50 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 7:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 13:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-04-04 7:52 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 8:41 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 5:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 6:03 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 6:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 23:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 12:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 22:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 22:59 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 14:31 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 14:47 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 15:09 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 15:18 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 15:49 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 15:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 8:12 ` [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers David Miller
2007-04-04 8:38 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 8:43 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 9:00 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 19:58 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 12:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-04 16:10 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 16:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 16:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 17:41 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-04 18:15 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 19:50 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 6:05 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 8:50 ` Russell King
2007-04-05 16:15 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-05 21:41 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-03 23:56 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 6:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 14:16 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:55 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:21 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:47 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 7:47 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 9:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 16:06 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 6:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-08-14 11:49 ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-14 11:53 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-14 16:24 ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-04 7:55 ` Olaf Hering
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20070404175023.GV4922@austin.ibm.com \
--to=linas@austin.ibm.com \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=david.lang@digitalinsight.com \
--cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).