From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tytso@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:43:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010327234308.B5411@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14i1ln-0004Tn-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3AC11145.58FDCFBB@transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <3AC11145.58FDCFBB@transmeta.com>; from hpa@transmeta.com on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:16:37PM -0800
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:16:37PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > A major for 'disk' generically makes total sense. Classing raid controllers
> > as 'scsi' isnt neccessarily accurate. A major for 'serial ports' would also
> > solve a lot of misery
>
> But it might also cause just as much misery, specifically because things
> move around too much.
Actually, it probably won't. As has already been said in the past, the
names are effectively a user space issue, but major numbers aren't.
I for one would like to see a major number for all 'serial ports' whether
they be embedded ARM serial ports _or_ standard 16550 ports, but at the
moment its not easily acheivable without introducing more mess.
Ted indicated to me a while ago (just after I wrote serial_core.c for
yet-another-type-of-ARM-serial-port) his visions of the direction serial
stuff should take in 2.5; this is obviously one of the things that I'm
keen to discuss and solve in 2.5.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 9:29 Larger dev_t Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-27 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-27 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-27 21:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-27 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-27 22:02 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-27 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-28 21:23 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-28 21:44 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-27 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-27 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 22:43 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-03-28 16:59 ` Jeff Randall
2001-03-28 0:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-28 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-28 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-28 2:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-28 7:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-28 21:32 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-29 3:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-29 11:02 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-02 20:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 7:25 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 12:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 12:13 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-04 8:08 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-30 6:54 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-03-28 21:18 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-27 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 22:55 ` Dan Hollis
2001-03-27 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 23:42 ` Richard Gooch
2001-03-28 1:03 ` Paul Jakma
2001-03-28 1:35 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-27 23:44 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-03-28 0:28 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-28 3:58 ` Johan Kullstam
2001-03-28 4:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 11:57 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 18:13 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-03-28 19:05 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 19:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-03-28 21:36 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 21:09 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-28 21:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 20:54 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 11:52 ` Pjotr Kourzanoff
2001-03-28 12:11 ` Tim Jansen
2001-03-27 19:27 ` Albert D. Cahalan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-03 14:48 Wayne.Brown
2001-04-03 15:34 ` Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-02 21:59 Andries.Brouwer
2001-04-02 20:17 Andries.Brouwer
2001-04-02 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 7:28 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 10:09 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-03 12:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 12:20 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-03 12:15 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 16:05 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-03 16:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-03 16:58 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-03 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 17:02 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-03 12:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 23:28 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-27 22:38 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-27 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-26 21:18 John Byrne
2001-03-26 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-26 23:41 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-25 12:31 Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-25 15:35 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-03-25 16:15 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2001-03-25 16:54 ` Michel Wilson
2001-03-25 17:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-25 17:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-25 17:07 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-03-25 17:37 ` Michel Wilson
2001-03-25 18:21 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-25 20:50 ` diego
2001-03-25 17:55 ` Gerry
2001-03-27 6:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-24 16:13 Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-24 14:25 Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-24 14:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-24 15:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-25 14:22 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-25 3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-25 14:35 ` Martin Dalecki
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