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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:44:43PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:14:39AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > It's the way its always been done, and the way the tty layer works.
> > You register a range of ttys that you're going to be driving, and
> > you own those ttys whether or not you actually have hardware for
> > them.
>
> How about this (yes, it's a hack but it's really not that bad and will
> get things working until we can fix this up in 2.7.x):

If you're going to do that, why not just disable 8250 in the kernels
configuration? It has exactly the same effect. With the change you
propose, you can't even use 8250 for PCMCIA serial cards.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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