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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:12:48 -0400 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: flar@...andria.com, paulus@...ba.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:02 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Sparc does the same thing, it's a common convention and you really > should not break it. I thought that argument was lost many years ago. It _used_ to be a common convention; we got better. > Every powerpc and sparc system out that is using ttyS0 with dynamic > minor numbers being allocated. I really think this should be > generalized instead of breaking serial on every powerpc machine out > there. Nobody's breaking anything. The patch _fixes_ serial, and allows powerpc machines to use both z8530 and 8250 ports at the same time; something which has been broken for a long time. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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