From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:49:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041222184954.A10968@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C990CA.20208@sgi.com>; from pfg@sgi.com on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:20:42AM -0600
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:20:42AM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > You want to register with the serial core before you register with PCI.
> > Then add each port when you find it via the PCI driver ->probe method.
> >
> > Removal is precisely the reverse order - remove each port in ->remove
> > method first, then unregister from serial core.
>
> How do I know how many ports I have when I register with serial core ?
> I use the info I got when i probed to fill in .nr
You need to decide on a maximum number of ports and always use that.
You only need to add the ports that you actually have in reality
though.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-22 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-22 0:28 [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support Pat Gefre
2004-12-22 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-22 14:03 ` Russell King
2004-12-22 15:20 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-22 18:49 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-12-22 19:53 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-22 20:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-03 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-31 22:45 ` [PATCH] " Pat Gefre
2005-02-01 9:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-02 20:36 ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-02 21:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-02 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-07 15:58 ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-07 16:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-08 16:52 ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-08 19:32 ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-10 19:09 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-10 19:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-10 21:07 ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-17 21:55 ` Patrick Gefre
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-16 22:24 [PATCH] 2.6.10 " Pat Gefre
2004-12-16 22:24 ` Pat Gefre
2004-12-16 22:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-16 23:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-17 16:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-17 22:14 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-17 22:14 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-18 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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