Alan Cox wrote: >> 2) How are device name conflicts handled? >> > > Badly - they should never occur but if someone didn't properly reserve > the namespace they can and then whoever forgot to reserve the namespace > loses. > Currently this can't happen because the sc26xx driver uses ttySC205 in contradiction to ttySC0 shown in devices.txt However if the driver were to be "fixed" to use the name registered in devices.txt a conflict could occur if a sc26xx chip were used on a superH system. The problem seems to be that while the major/minor numbers in devices.txt are unique (and the drivers are correctly using their registered numbers), the _names_ are not unique (at least in this case - I haven't checked for others). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
