Re: Serial: sc26xx device name

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:23:32 +0100
Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> 2) How are device name conflicts handled?
> >>     
> >
> > Badly - they should never occur but if someone didn't properly reserve
> > the namespace they can and then whoever forgot to reserve the namespace
> > loses.
> >   
> Currently this can't happen because the sc26xx driver uses ttySC205
> in contradiction to ttySC0 shown in devices.txt

I'd suggest that someone fixes it when it happens in that case. I doubt
it ever will.
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