Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.u

From: Stuart MacDonald (stuartm@connecttech.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 12:10:01 EST


From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
> Does that mean SPARC has a conflict between the 8250/16x50 driver and the
> Zilog driver? If so, the latter should probably move (ttyZ is still an
> unused name.)

If there's a conflict it would be with the minor numbers, which
I haven't been able to check yet, not the /dev namespace.
Well, if if both drivers want their users to use ttyS0 as
the first UART from each, the user will have to pick one,
but that's not up to the driver.

..Stu

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