linux-kernel - Re: Serial: sc26xx device name

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Message-ID: <20091121140911.0e7ef3fd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:09:11 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	mfuzzey@...il.com
Cc:	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, tsbogend@...ha.franken.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial: sc26xx device name

> So two questions:
> 1) Who is right (the driver or devices.txt)?

devices.txt has all the officially properly registered values

> 2) How are device name conflicts handled?

Badly - they should never occur but if someone didn't properly reserve
the namespace they can and then whoever forgot to reserve the namespace
loses.
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