From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758510Ab0I0ARI (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:17:08 -0400 Received: from dsl78-143-211-26.in-addr.fast.co.uk ([78.143.211.26]:37789 "EHLO ben-laptop" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754486Ab0I0ARG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:17:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9FE27D.80407@fluff.org> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:17:01 +0100 From: Ben Dooks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Richter CC: Darius Augulis , kgene.kim@samsung.com, Ben Dooks , paulius.zaleckas@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] serial: samsung: fix device name References: <20100923190212.18863.25678.stgit@darius-desktop> <4C9BE577.4050504@fluff.org> <20100924073453.GA3840@richter> In-Reply-To: <20100924073453.GA3840@richter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 24/09/10 08:34, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:57:19AM +0300, Darius Augulis wrote: > >> It does - now devices are named /dev/s3c2410_serial, and patch changes >> its name to /dev/ttySAC > > I wonder if it'd make sense to name them ttyS[0-9]. I've never > understood why the platform standard fixed serial ports on any device > should have a different name. Different driver. And yes, we've built systems with both this and an 8250 base chip.