From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/8250: Increase number of serial ports to 32
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:08:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110160851.GA10708@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDAA41F.1060402@visionsystems.de>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:54:39PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> This will make sure that multiple serial port cards can be
> used out of the box. Otherwise the user must pass
> nr_uarts parameter, that will be often forgotten and increases
> support requests for serial card vendors.
Has this really happened in the past? What is the downside of changing
this option that has been around for many years now? Also note that
multi-port serial cards are more rare these days than they used to be so
changing this seems a bit pointless now.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-10 13:54 [PATCH] serial/8250: Increase number of serial ports to 32 Yegor Yefremov
2010-11-10 16:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-10 17:02 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-11-10 17:33 ` Greg KH
2010-12-10 15:10 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-11-10 19:10 ` Matt Schulte
2010-11-10 19:28 ` Greg KH
2010-11-10 21:28 ` Matt Schulte
2010-11-11 0:52 ` Greg KH
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