On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:02 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Sparc does the same thing, it's a common convention and you really > should not break it.
I thought that argument was lost many years ago. It _used_ to be a common convention; we got better. > Every powerpc and sparc system out that is using ttyS0 with dynamic > minor numbers being allocated. I really think this should be > generalized instead of breaking serial on every powerpc machine out > there. Nobody's breaking anything. The patch _fixes_ serial, and allows powerpc machines to use both z8530 and 8250 ports at the same time; something which has been broken for a long time. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
