Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:19:19 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: Christmas list for the kernel |
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On 11/23/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > My system has: > > 2 serial > > > > In /sys/bus/platform/devices I see this: > > serial8250 > > shouldn't there be entries for all of the legacy devices? > > > > In /dev > > ttyS0 > > ttyS1 > > ttyS2 > > ttyS3 > > You're basically confused about serial ports. The kernel serial devices > whether or not hardware is found, to allow programs such as setserial to > function. > > If you disagree with that, there'll be an equal number of people who > have serial cards that need setserial who will in turn disagree with > you.
This is confusing...
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
/sys/bus/platform/devices/serial8250 [jonsmirl@jonsmirl serial8250]$ ls bus driver power tty:ttyS0 tty:ttyS1 tty:ttyS2 tty:ttyS3 uevent [jonsmirl@jonsmirl serial8250]$
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