From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from adicia.telenet-ops.be (adicia.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.56]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30B7DDE38 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:04:44 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:04:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven Sender: geert@linux-m68k.org To: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. In-Reply-To: <20070403.225006.119275067.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20070404022544.59b022a6@the-village.bc.nu> <17939.10130.687893.167511@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175663999.2932.8.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070403.225006.119275067.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse > Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:19:59 -0400 > > > I don't see why that 'should' be the case. Certainly it _isn't_ the case > > on most supported platforms -- we have separate device numbers, and > > names, for most types of ports. There's only one or two drivers which > > abuse ttySn for anything other than 8250 ports. > > sunsu, sunzilog, pmac_zilog, sunsab, etc. amiserial. > The list is longer than you think. In fact the convention is > very well established. And I guess the recently revived Atari serial driver, too. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds