From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Karthik Manamcheri <karthik.manamcheri@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
Karthik Manamcheri <karthik.manamcheri@ni.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Make SERIAL8250_CONFIG_RUNTIME_UARTS work correctly
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:22:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130328212254.GA20051@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364502043-13018-1-git-send-email-karthik.manamcheri@ni.com>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Karthik Manamcheri wrote:
> Currently, if you set SERIAL8250_CONFIG_RUNTIME_UARTS
There is no such config option, please get it correct.
> to 0, you cannot get any working ports.
Isn't that on purpose? Why would you ever set that value to 0 and
expect things to work?
> This change will enable serial8250_register_port to successfully
> register a port even if SERIAL8250_CONFIG_RUNTIME_UARTS
> is 0. If you need legacy ports, you will set the
> SERIAL8250_CONFIG_RUNTIME_UARTS to the number of legacy
> ports you need created at boot time.
I don't understand, if you set the option to be 0, how can anything
work here?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-28 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-28 20:20 [PATCH] serial: 8250: Make SERIAL8250_CONFIG_RUNTIME_UARTS work correctly Karthik Manamcheri
2013-03-28 21:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2013-03-28 22:15 ` Greg KH
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