Hi, On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Ming Lei <tom.leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/12/20 Charles Manning <mannin...@actrix.gen.nz>: >> Hi All >> >> With the change to the new omap-serial stuff, the device names have changed >> from /dev/ttySn to /dev/ttyOn. >> >> Using the "fit/form/function" argument, this would seem to be a bad idea. >> >> The kernel does not exist in a vacuum. It is surrounded by u-boot scripts, >> command line options, init scripts etc etc. Flipping back and forth between >> 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 kernels for testing purposes needs these to be changed. >> Annoying and anti-productive. >> >> Isn't it just better to just replace the ttyOn name with ttyS. That would >> make >> a far smoother transition. >> >> Thoughts? > > In fact, the transition is not friendly indeed for a user. I don't know why > the transition is introduced, for what purpose? Who can give a explanation? >
Patch itself has one explanation, kernel commit is b612633b5928077441b979471869753bfa93d41a http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg02788.html Best Regards Abraham -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
