Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:51:18 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Serial port numbering (ttyS..) wrong for 2.5.61+ |
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:48:14PM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote: > Numbering seems to be coming out of > drivers/serial/core.c : uart_find_match_or_unused > which is responsible for finding an unused state for the port. > > However, the code there seems to be clean and I guess we should look > where the state are initialized.
When we add a port to the system, we try to find in order:
- a port which matches the base address - a port which is unallocated
Probably the easiest way to stop the "ttyS14" occuring would be to clear the port information at boot when we don't find a port.
-- 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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