On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:34:53AM +0200, 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. It's called namespace. If platform serial ports are different, then they have to have a separate namespace otherwise things like console= end up having to have a separate namespace from the one which the user sees in the filesystem. Moreover, you introduce a bunch of special cases into the 8250 serial driver - or you simply exclude the 8250 serial driver being used on a platform. -- 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
