From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: 8250/16550 serial driver not being installed if set modular Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:55:30 +0000 Message-ID: <20051117225530.GA20221@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20051115115613.GA10399@roll> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:36107 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964883AbVKQWzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:55:36 -0500 Received: from flint.arm.linux.org.uk ([2002:d412:e8ba:1:201:2ff:fe14:8fad]) by caramon.arm.linux.org.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.52) id 1EcsfF-0003I0-I8 for linux-serial@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:55:34 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051115115613.GA10399@roll> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Hikaru1@verizon.net Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:56:13AM -0500, Hikaru1@verizon.net wrote: > Hi, I'm emailing you to report a bug with the serial driver in linux kernel > 2.6.14.2, you are listed as the maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file, so if > I've sent you this bug report in error please tell me where I should be > sending it. > > I'm using slackware 10.2 on a AMD K7 (XP 2600) this is a 32bit i386 > compatible machine. > > in 2.6.14.2's menuconfig, under Device Drivers->Character devices->Serial > drivers if I select the option 8250/16550 and compatible serial support to > be compiled into the kernel, it works fine. If I select it to compile as a > module, the module 'serial' is not installed when I do make modules_install. > I'm also pretty sure it's not being compiled at all when selected to be > compiled as a module. > > Just to be clear, the help for that option specifically says the module will > be named 'serial' if the name's wrong, could you tell me what it is named? > > I don't know what's wrong with it, nor where to check. Could you give me > some pointers on what to check so I can give you more information? I > really prefer to have as much as I can as modules as my computer has to boot > using a floppy disk. It's actually called '8250' and it depends on 'serial_core' as well. I'll fix the docs. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core