From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753868AbXDDORS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:17:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753865AbXDDORS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:17:18 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59337 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753870AbXDDORR (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:17:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. From: David Woodhouse To: Paul Mackerras Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <17939.19585.475192.767243@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <1175610345.2665.15.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17938.57292.870224.132415@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17939.19585.475192.767243@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:16:41 -0400 Message-Id: <1175696202.2774.20.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 (2.10.0-7.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:58 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > David Woodhouse writes: > > > A GUI PPP dialer should be > > listing the available serial ports in the system whatever their names > > are. > > How do you propose they do that? Neither kppp nor gnome-ppp seem to > be able to do that currently. Gnome-ppp offers just /dev/modem and > /dev/ttyS[0123]. Kppp offers those plus a whole pile of others, but > neither found the /dev/ttyPZ[01] that I get with your patch applied. > Gnome-ppp at least let me type in /dev/ttyPZ0, but kppp didn't seem to > have that facility. shinybook /shiny/git/olpc-2.6 $ ls /dev/tty[a-zA-Z]* /dev/ttyPZ0 /dev/ttyPZ1 /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS3 If you have dialler programs which can't manage to show you the existing serial ports, file bugs. Especially if they don't let you type device nodes into them. Sounds like kppp wouldn't let you use USB serial ports either -- or phones connected directly via USB. -- dwmw2