From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992879AbXDDMU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:20:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992883AbXDDMU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:20:58 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:3307 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992879AbXDDMU5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:20:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:20:53 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Alan Cox Cc: David Miller , dwmw2@infradead.org, flar@allandria.com, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. Message-ID: <20070404122053.GA10599@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Alan Cox , David Miller , dwmw2@infradead.org, flar@allandria.com, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070404022828.5c9b97f3@the-village.bc.nu> <20070404024400.56d016e1@the-village.bc.nu> <20070403.185026.26966290.davem@davemloft.net> <20070404121434.73d01e7e@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070404121434.73d01e7e@the-village.bc.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.