linux-kernel - Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:30 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ambx1@....rr.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, lenb@...nel.org, rmk@....linux.org.uk,
	mjg59@...f.ucam.org, castet.matthieu@...e.fr
Subject: Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to
 platform devices - broke my serial console

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> And couldn't we use udev to associate a fixed name with a MAC
> address?  Then the user could use the same persistent name,
> regardless of the order in which the driver found the devices.


I don't know about udev, but people are definitely using fixed names 
based on MAC address for ethernet devices already:  nameif(8) and 
/etc/mactab, iftab(5) and ifrename(8).

	Jeff


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