Re: [RFC 1/8] serial:st-asc: Add ST ASC driver.

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri May 10 2013 - 10:08:17 EST


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Stephen GALLIMORE wrote:
> Greg, having looked at this we have concluded that we should just go
> dynamic, as others have mentioned with udev on a full system or
> devtmpfs on a minimal initramfs system there is no reason to use a
> static major/minor. However the view here is that we would prefer to
> keep the unique name, as for example the lantiq driver which is also
> dynamic does, for the reason previously mentioned regarding PCIe
> cards.

Why do you want your own name?

> Is that acceptable?

I would prefer not to use a new serial port name, as this is only going
to make it harder for me to delete that name in the next year :)

Sorry,

greg k-h
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