From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryan Whitehead Subject: Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:59:04 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E694058.50101@jpl.nasa.gov> References: <11E89240C407D311958800A0C9ACF7D1A33DD5@EXCHANGE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ed Vance Cc: 'Theodore Ts'o' , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Quick question: What PCI serial port add on card works with devfs in kernel 2.4.19 out of the box? No pissing around? While I'm messing around with the one I got (that doesn't work) I need one that does... any suggestions?? Thanks to all for the help!! Ed Vance wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 3:39 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > >>On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:51:45PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >> >>>It seems devfsd has an annoying "feature". I bought a PCI >>>card to get a couple (2) more serial ports. The kernel doesn't >>>seem to set up the serial ports at boot, so devfs never >>>creates an entry. However, post boot, since there is no >>>entries, I cannot configure the serial ports with setserial. >>>So basically devfsd = no PCI based serial add on? >> >>Yep. This I pointed this out as a flaw to devfs a long, long time >>(years!) ago, but Richard chose not to listen to me. Personally, I >>solve this (and other) problems by simply refusing to use devfs. > > > Ted, > > Will Bryan get the proper devfs entries if he patches serial.c to > recognize his card at kernel initialization, or is there more > weirdness expected? > > Best regards, > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Ed Vance edv (at) macrolink (dot) com > Macrolink, Inc. 1500 N. Kellogg Dr Anaheim, CA 92807 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 driver@jpl.nasa.gov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs