Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

Alan Cox
2007-04-04T16:22:50Z

> One option would be to move the 8250-based serial ports, to, say,
> /dev/ttyN* (for National Semiconductors -- the best I could come up
> with) and redefine /dev/ttyS* as a serial port multiplexer which maps in
> all the types, for the ones that really want dynamic mapping.

I think this makes it worse than simply starting the 8250 ports at a
platform specific minor offset.

Alan