On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Le Tuesday 13 January 2009 16:07:50 Ihar Hrachyshka, vous avez écrit : >> In 'drivers/serial/pnx833x_port.c' we define the prefix for UART serial >> device as "ttyS". Anyway, we use major:minor numbers for SA1100 serial >> driver (that are 204:5). Why don't we use "ttySA" prefix then? That's >> what different embedded build systems expect for populating /dev (f.e. >> buildroot). > > In my experience, everything that is not ttyS is a bit confusing either when > creating the devices in the roots, or when using the serial console in the > kernel command line. So I will vote for ttyS. The problem is that use-case with generic 8250 and board specific serial drivers both enabled is not a fantasy. So we need to differentiate between them. > > My 2 cents. > -- > Best regards, Florian Fainelli > Email : florian@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://openwrt.org > ------------------------------- >
