Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:43:11 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > There was tangential mention in that thread > of a "/proc/serialdev" interface, but nobody really identified any > real benefit to it over the existing "uart: unknown" system.
There is one benefit, which would be to get rid of some of the yucky mess we currently have surrounding the implementation of stuff which changes the port base address/irq.
Currently, we have to check that we're the only user, shutdown, tweak stuff, hope it all goes to plan, and start stuff back up again. If something fails, we have to pray we can go back to the original setup without stuff breaking. If that fails, we mark the port "unknown".
All of this would be a lot simpler if we didn't have the port actually open at the time we change these parameters. We could just lock the port against opens, check no one was using it, tweak the settings, and release the port. If the changes fail, just report the failure.
-- 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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