From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 13:11:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 13:10:54 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:40748 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 13:10:37 -0400 To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <01051602593001.00406@starship> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 17 May 2001 11:07:46 -0600 In-Reply-To: Daniel Phillips's message of "Wed, 16 May 2001 02:59:30 +0200" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Phillips writes: > On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected > > serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. > > There are well-defined rules for the first four on PC's. The ttySx > better match the labels the OEM put on the box. Actually it would be better to have the OEM put a label in the firmware, and then have a way to query the device for it's label. The legacy rules are nice but serial ports are done with superio chips now. And superio chips are almost all ISA PNP chips without device enumeration, and isolation. Eric