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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:25:14 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
dwmw2@...radead.org, paulus@...ba.org, flar@...andria.com,
linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
> One option would be to move the 8250-based serial ports, to, say,
> /dev/ttyN* (for National Semiconductors -- the best I could come up
> with) and redefine /dev/ttyS* as a serial port multiplexer which maps in
> all the types, for the ones that really want dynamic mapping.
I think this makes it worse than simply starting the 8250 ports at a
platform specific minor offset.
Alan
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