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

Olivier Galibert
2007-04-04T12:20:58Z

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:14:34PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If you want hierarchy, create it:
> >
> > /sys/blah/serial/controllerX/portY
> >
> > and keeping them all under the ttyS? major keeps the simple
> > cases working sanely too.
>
> Currently yes you could do that, but that would break all the back
> compatibility.

libata's hd->s* does that too, with probably a much larger impact.
Could udev be useful for once and make back compatibility symlinks?
Unifying serial the same way disks, cdroms, network, etc got unified
has some charm.

OG.