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

Brad Boyer
2007-04-04T00:30:13Z

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:12:48PM -0400, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Sparc does the same thing, it's a common convention and you really
> > should not break it.
>
> I thought that argument was lost many years ago. It _used_ to be a
> common convention; we got better.

This argument was made and lost as you say. The problem is that the
resolution was a decision from on high. For the most part, everyone
kept their original opinion and nothing was truly resolved. I think
there was some resentment on the part of the losing side because
they felt their opinions weren't seriously considered. Please
correct me if my impressions of that were wrong. I was not directly
involved in such arguments at the time.

Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com