Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:07:46 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:49:54AM -0800, Ed Vance wrote: > Anybody know of any other (worse) technical issues with PCI/setserial > on the 2.4 kernels?
Please note that one of the things I've recently done is to put a lot of effort into re-working the PCI serial code in 2.5, hopefully without breaking too much other stuff. It works here with my, ah hem, limited PCI serial devices.
One of the areas I've tried to improve is our "port guessing" algorithm. Hopefully, this will allow more serial cards to just work like the one which started this thread, but only time will tell if this is successful.
It hasn't hit Linus' tree yet, so please don't go looking there for it yet.
I'm also not going to suggest backporting it to 2.4 either, but if some one is feeling brave enough, they're welcome to try (this is what Open Source is all about!) 8)
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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