From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/8250: Increase number of serial ports to 32 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:08:51 -0800 Message-ID: <20101110160851.GA10708@kroah.com> References: <4CDAA41F.1060402@visionsystems.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:43673 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756893Ab0KJQTp (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:19:45 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CDAA41F.1060402@visionsystems.de> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Yegor Yefremov Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org 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