linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

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Date:	Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:47:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	paulus@...ba.org, dwmw2@...radead.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:36:37 +0100

> I've no fundamental problem with S0->console port 1, S1 -> console port 2
> etc, but the general notion that type and positional information doesn't
> matter is complete and utter bollocks when you try and apply it to any
> serious serial setup.

If you want geographical type device specification hierarchies, to
sanely manage that kind of stuff, they belong via sysfs or something
userside like that.

Using a bunch of different majors does not help the situation you
speak of.

What if I have 1,000 cyclades cards in my system?  The cyclades
serial major number helps me diddly in that case.  What about
having 82 8250's?
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