Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:38:56 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: wrong number of serial port detected |
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:31:28PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:28:05PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Le mercredi 07 d?cembre 2005 ? 21:15 +0000, Russell King a ?crit : > > > > > 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) > > Oh sorry. Mail me your root password and IP address, let me log in > to your system, and I'll remove those device nodes right now. Thanks > for pointing that out. > > Seriously, surely you aren't suggesting that I somehow have personal > control over this?
Additionally, if you have a problem with this, the total number of ports _is_ kernel configurable.
So if you're getting 32 ports from a distro targetted at the current range of consumer hardware which commonly has maybe 1 or 2 and possibly a modem card (iow probably max 4 ports), please take it up with them.
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