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SubjectRe: wrong number of serial port detected
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Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 21:15 +0000, Russell King a écrit :

> 4. User tries the well documented "setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x220 irq 5"
> procedure, which has been supported since Linux 1.x
>
> 5. User finds that, because there is no ttyS2 device in /dev, they
> can't configure their card.

Well, instead of polluting everybody's /dev for the 3 users having such
cards, why not just tell the user to run
MAKEDEV /dev/ttyS2 ; setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x220 irq 5
instead ? (Or even mknod)

Xav


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