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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Incorrect mapping of serial ports to lines
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jun Sun wrote:
> > This is why I favor run-time serial port configuration.  My view
>
>  Well, that's certainly a reasonable long-time strategy.
>
> > (maybe a little dramatic) is to remove all static serial port definition
> > and push them into board setup routine.  asm/serial.h only needs
>
>  I'm not sure that is the right way of doing it -- note that one problem
> is serial drivers can be built as modules and inserted at the run time.

The same is true for whatever other type of device (SCSI, IDE, Ethernet, ...).
And depending on the order of module loading, the order of the devices will
change.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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