On Wednesday 11 July 2007 01:17:42 am Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:03:35PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized > > > > if the port is not initialized with correct iobase, and membase, we don't > > need to add that port. > > for x86, when pnpacpi is enabled, we will not get extra ttyS1/ttyS2/ttyS3 in > > /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty > > > > Sign-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What if someone wants to run setserial on /dev/ttyS1 to set it's base > address, irq and other parameters? People still do this.
I agree that people still use setserial that way, and we shouldn't make this change because it would break things. But I also agree with Yinghai that these extra phantom devices are just weird. It would be a lot nicer if there were a way to say, "please, Mr. Serial Driver, create me a new ttyS device with these parameters." But no, I'm not volunteering to do that. Bjorn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
