Re: [patch] Incorrect mapping of serial ports to lines

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:49:11PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > The NEC DDB Vrc-5074 (and probably the other DDB variants as well) has one
> > serial port in the Nile 4 host bridge, and 2 serial ports in the Super I/O.
> > 
> > To me it sounds the most logical if the one in the Nile 4 is ttyS0.
> 
>  Then we need to find a way to make the order configurable somehow.

This is why I favor run-time serial port configuration.  My view
(maybe a little dramatic) is to remove all static serial port definition
and push them into board setup routine.  asm/serial.h only needs
to define the number serial lines, which itself could be configurable.

Jun