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From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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* Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> [221118 22:12]:
> I don't buy the argument here for 1-1 mapping of aliased serial
> instances to instances - why should main_uart8 be ttyS10, why not
> ttyS8 (it is equally valid - why was it called uart8?).. That mapping
> is just a convention we are choosing to create.

Heh yeah IMO uart8 should be ttyS8.. I agree let's not break the userspace
device names as we've seen what kind of nightmare that ends up being.

Regards,

Tony