> At the user level, there is no difference between a sun zilog serial port, > an 8250 serial port or a USB serial port so these should be allocated > using the same allocation system. That isn't strictly true. > For me, it would also simplify the issue of trying to work what devive to > look for when I plug in a new USB serial port device. It would be the new > /dev/ttyS<x> to appear in /dev. Naming is a private matter for udev anyway, independant of numbering for major/minor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html