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

Alan Cox
2007-04-04T01:36:28Z

> my opinion. I do understand that 8250 compatible chips are very common
> and are the most likely serial chips to be used with Linux. However, I
> will point out that the define is TTY_MAJOR, not 8250_MAJOR. It seems
> to me that whoever named it was thinking in more generic terms.

The define goes back the very first days of Linux. I doubt whoever named
it (Linus I imagine) had even considered that anyone else might be
running his terminal emulator at that point.