From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 15:31:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 15:31:00 -0400 Received: from gopostal.digi.com ([204.221.110.15]:44812 "EHLO gopostal.digi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 15:30:43 -0400 From: Jeff Randall Message-Id: <200105171930.OAA26119@bif.digi.com> Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:30:10 -0500 (CDT) Cc: phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips), nico@cam.org (Nicolas Pitre), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: from "Eric W. Biederman" at May 17, 2001 11:07:46 AM Reply-To: Jeff_Randall@digi.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Daniel Phillips writes: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected > > > serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. > > > > There are well-defined rules for the first four on PC's. The ttySx > > better match the labels the OEM put on the box. > > Actually it would be better to have the OEM put a label in the > firmware, and then have a way to query the device for it's label. > > The legacy rules are nice but serial ports are done with superio chips > now. And superio chips are almost all ISA PNP chips without device > enumeration, and isolation. Not all serial ports are superio chips. There's all kinds of serial ports on all kinds of different busses being supported under Linux. The company I work for supports serial ports on ISA, PCI, SCSI, Ethernet, and USB at the moment... -- Jeff Randall - Jeff_Randall@digi.com "A paranoid person is never alone, he knows he's always the center of attention..."