linux-kernel - Why not are all serial devices named ttyS* ?

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Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:34:14 +0200
From:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Why not are all serial devices named ttyS* ?

Hi,

I'm just wondering why device nodes of some serial drivers (mostly
when arch != x86) are not always named "ttyS[:digit:]" ?

For example, I have a ARM based platform which has a serial device
node named "ttymxc0".

I don't see any advantages to do this but only require one to handle
special cases since most applications expect the ttyS* name.

Thanks
-- 
Francis
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