linux-kernel - Re: Allow 8250 to work on sparc.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:51:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	mark@...hpc.demon.co.uk, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	joy@...uzijast.net
Subject: Re: Allow 8250 to work on sparc.

From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:22:11 +0100

> > 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

True.  But I think there is some merit in having such a generic
allocator for the current users of the ttySX minor space.
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