On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:21:54AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > So if we're going to do the "Worse is Better" thing, what I'd suggest > doing is that someone simply submit a hack so that pmac_zilog can > steal minor numbers and use /dev/ttyS0. I accepted the patch way back > when I was serial maintainer; Russell ripped it out when he became the > serial maintainer; but now that he's no longer the serial maintainer, > he doesn't get to complain about that any more :-)
The problem with that approach was that it was being extended to more and more drivers in the ARM world, creating an #ifdef mess in the serial driver. Moreover, it provided *no* way to select an 8250-based serial port in the presence of a "foreign" port claiming the ttyS console namespace. Utterly unacceptable when you have a real environment of mixed serial port types. IOW, it was utterly broken. It prevented me from doing the things I wanted to do. The only real answer is to fix the problem *properly*. Hacks just end up breaking peoples setups. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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/
