Re: 16550 serial support

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On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 09:18:52PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Those indexes "0", "1", etc. are within the namespace of the device
> type itself.  It does not determine which ttyS? device index these
> things gets hooked up to. [...]

OK, I was hoping for that, but it didn't seem to be that way in practice.

> You probably have something that looks like:
> 
> sunsu                /dev/ttyS       4 64-65 serial
> serial               /dev/ttyS       4 66-69 serial
> 
> which would match up with my predictions above.  /dev/ttyS0 uses
> device minor 64, /dev/ttyS1 gets minor 65, etc.

Yes, you're right, /proc/tty/drivers does say that.

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