> my opinion. I do understand that 8250 compatible chips are very common > and are the most likely serial chips to be used with Linux. However, I > will point out that the define is TTY_MAJOR, not 8250_MAJOR. It seems > to me that whoever named it was thinking in more generic terms.
The define goes back the very first days of Linux. I doubt whoever named it (Linus I imagine) had even considered that anyone else might be running his terminal emulator at that point. - 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/
