From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yegor Yefremov Subject: [PATCH] serial/8250: Increase number of serial ports to 32 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:54:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4CDAA41F.1060402@visionsystems.de> Reply-To: yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ns.visionsystems.de ([62.145.30.242]:54328 "EHLO mail.visionsystems.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755816Ab0KJOQs (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:16:48 -0500 Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH 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. Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov Index: b/drivers/serial/Kconfig =================================================================== --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig 2010-11-10 03:53:21.000000000 +0100 +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig 2010-11-10 14:32:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS int "Maximum number of 8250/16550 serial ports" depends on SERIAL_8250 - default "4" + default "32" help Set this to the number of serial ports you want the driver to support. This includes any ports discovered via ACPI or @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int "Number of 8250/16550 serial ports to register at runtime" depends on SERIAL_8250 range 0 SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS - default "4" + default "32" help Set this to the maximum number of serial ports you want the kernel to register at boot time. This can be overridden