[PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Thu Apr 5 16:05:31 EST 2007
David Woodhouse writes:
> And you always will be. The amount of pain involved in implementing
> this, just so that people can call their serial port 'ttyS0', is _far_
> more than it's worth. It could be done, but it's a completely pointless
> waste of time and effort.
Avoiding breaking userspace is a completely pointless waste of time
and effort? Linux is ready for the desktop? Suuuure it is...
Paul.
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