From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@debian.org>,
"Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:36:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008801c237d6$8b7dc640$294b82ce@connecttech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020729231927.D3317@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
From: "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@debian.org>
> I'm not. All the issues you mention below go away if we make the rule
> that _all_ serial ports are /dev/ttyS*. Userspace can have symlinks to
> ease the transition if necessary.
I agree.
> but we should be able to reclaim:
>
> Chase serial card (major 17/18), the Cyclades (major 19/20), Digiboard
> (major 22/23), Stallion (major 24/25), Specialix (32/33), isdn4linux
> (43/44), Comtrol (46/47), SDL RISCom (48/49), Hayes (57/58), Computone
> (71/72), Specialix (75/76), PAM (78/79), Comtrol VS (105/106), ISI
> (112/113), Technology Concepts (148/149), Specialix RIO (154/155/156/157),
> Chase Research (164/165), ACM (166/167), Moxa (172/173), SmartIO
> (174/175), USB (188/189), Low-density misc serial ports (204/205),
> userspace (208/209) BlueTooth (216/217), A2232 (224/225) ... holy crap,
> that's a lot of char dev space ;-) 52 majors.. think what those must
> be worth on the open market ;-)
I don't know if reclaiming the USB major is a good idea or not.
..Stu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-29 4:08 Serial core problems on embedded PPC David Gibson
2002-07-29 9:00 ` Russell King
2002-07-29 14:44 ` Tom Rini
2002-07-29 17:17 ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC) Russell King
2002-07-29 17:43 ` Tom Rini
2002-07-29 18:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-07-29 19:07 ` Tom Rini
2002-07-29 19:09 ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: " Dan Malek
2002-07-29 19:46 ` Remco Treffkorn
2002-07-29 20:18 ` Russell King
2002-07-30 2:54 ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion David S. Miller
2002-07-30 18:23 ` Remco Treffkorn
2002-07-30 18:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-30 18:51 ` Russell King
2002-07-30 18:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-29 18:15 ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC) Matt Porter
2002-07-29 17:47 ` [parisc-linux] " Christoph Plattner
2002-07-29 22:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-30 14:36 ` Stuart MacDonald [this message]
2002-07-30 15:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-30 15:43 ` Stuart MacDonald
2002-07-30 15:53 ` Russell King
2002-07-30 15:59 ` Greg KH
2002-07-30 16:06 ` Stuart MacDonald
2002-08-02 1:57 ` Jeff Randall
2002-07-30 2:51 ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion David S. Miller
2002-07-30 1:12 ` Serial core problems on embedded PPC David Gibson
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