Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:15:16 +0100 (MET) | From | Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <> | Subject | Re: Sharing IRQs between the first 4 serial ports. |
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> This patch (to change the behaviour of CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ) is > incorrect, and shouldn't be applied to the kernel sources. > I've removed the CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ stuff in the last (final) patch.
[...] > The right answer is not to make more compile-time configuration options > to the kernel, but rather to use a run-time configuration solution, such > as setserial. In the future, when Linux has hardware plug-and-play > support, that will be the far better (automatic) run-time configuration > solution, at least for those people with hardware that can support > plug-and-play operation. > Many people find it more logical to configure such things in the kernel.
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Regards,
Niels Kristian
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