Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:23:37 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Christmas list for the kernel |
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:16:37PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:02:33PM +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote: > > Mine looks like this. > > > > * Why is the seconf line for ttyS1 missing (as you have one above)? > > Probably because whatever-added-ttyS0 didn't add ttyS1 as well. As > I've said, due to the complex initialisation of serial (and the fact > I don't see this) I can't provide a more useful answer. > > At a guess, the "whatever-added-ttyS0" could be ACPI. ACPI doesn't > have the notion of devices, so any ACPI ports would appear as legacy > devices. Hence, ttyS0 may have been provided by both the legacy table > and maybe ACPI, whereas ttyS1 seems to only be provided by the legacy > table. > > Maybe that indicates your ACPI is buggy. I don't know. I know nothing > about ACPI. > > > * What does these 'too much work' messages mean? Must have been come > > in lately... > > It means that we spun in the serial interrupt for more than 256 times > and reached the limit on the amount of work we were prepared to do. > Any idea what you were doing when these happened? Because ACPI was right and the second serial port isn't there?
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