Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 21:26:01 EST


> I don't need to know anything about the inanrds of my computer to
> bring up the ethernet interface, me caveman me bringup eth0, me on
> network, caveman happy. The same should be true for serial ports.

You don't get machines with 64 ethernet ports on add-in cards. There are
good reasons for the naming schemes in use.

Alan
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