[PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

[Daniel Walker]

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:55 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > I found it independently actually .. It looks like there's at least two
> > problems. This jtag driver has a status register which flags when RX is
> > available, and TX is possible. I'm not sure this status register fits
> > into the model. The other thing is that we have a ttyJ registered for
> > this driver, and it would be nice to use that over something like ttyHVC
> > (I'm not sure if that name is correct, just a guess).
> 
> Really?  Is there a compelling reason to perpetuate this serial device 
> namespace fragmentation nonsense?  Your initial patch even had a config 
> option to hijack /dev/ttyS0 because of that.

I'm not sure how to interpret what your saying .. Are you saying we
should use /dev/hvcX or shouldn't ? the reason I want to use ttyJ is
because it was assigned specifically for jtags which, to me, makes
things a lot less confusing.

Daniel

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