Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

[David Woodhouse]

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

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