Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:08:00 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: wrong number of serial port detected |
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:23:46PM -0600, Jason Dravet wrote: > Not to keep complaining, but I now have the following issue. I running > Fedora Cores 2.6.15-1.1826 kernel. When I run dmesg I now see this: > > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > 00:06: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > > before 2.6.15 I saw > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > > The serial driver now correctly reports that I have two serial ports > instead of 32. So shouldn't the patch register the minimum of > CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS and the number of serial ports detected by the > serial driver?
It's a classic chicken and egg problem. If you can solve such problems, please feel free to send a patch.
-- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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