On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:14:34PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > If you want hierarchy, create it: > > > > /sys/blah/serial/controllerX/portY > > > > and keeping them all under the ttyS? major keeps the simple > > cases working sanely too. > > Currently yes you could do that, but that would break all the back > compatibility.
libata's hd->s* does that too, with probably a much larger impact. Could udev be useful for once and make back compatibility symlinks? Unifying serial the same way disks, cdroms, network, etc got unified has some charm. OG. - 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/
