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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:36:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132702614.20233.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910511221341u695f6765k985ecf0c54daba49@mail.gmail.com>

On Maw, 2005-11-22 at 16:41 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> An example of this is that the serial driver is hard coded to report
> four legacy serial ports when my system physically only has two. I
> have to change a #define and recompile the kernel to change this.

It does an autodetect sequence to find the ports. If it reports ttyS0-S3
your system probably has them, they may just not be wired to external
ports and that is kinda tricky to autodetect

> looks for everything again anyway. In a more friendly system X would
> use the info the kernel provides and automatically configure itself
> for the devices present or hotplugged. You could get rid of your
> xorg.cong file in this model.


Not really as half of xorg.conf is preferences


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-22 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-22 18:31 Christmas list for the kernel Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 18:39 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-22 19:10   ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23  0:43     ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23  1:09       ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23  1:37         ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-23  2:00         ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23  5:18           ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23  5:45             ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 16:12       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 19:27         ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-22 19:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-22 19:57   ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 22:16     ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-23 22:12   ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-22 20:49 ` Greg KH
2005-11-22 21:13   ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 21:28     ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-11-22 21:41       ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 21:56         ` David Lang
2005-11-22 22:00         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-22 23:36         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-11-22 23:56           ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23  9:09             ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:07           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23  8:47         ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-23 14:44         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 17:21           ` Gene Heskett
2005-11-23 17:30             ` Russell King
2005-11-23 19:28               ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-22 23:35     ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 23:58       ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23  0:37         ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-23 11:19         ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 12:17     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 14:43       ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:03         ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:12           ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:56             ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:05               ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:37                 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 16:49                   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:59                     ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 17:05                       ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 17:13                         ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 17:16                           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 17:24                           ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 17:15                       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 19:32                     ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 15:19           ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:25             ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:31               ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:36                 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:02             ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:16               ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:23                 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:23                 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:27                   ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:31                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-23 16:34                       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:33                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 15:20           ` Pierre Ossman
2005-11-23 15:29             ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:39               ` Pierre Ossman
2005-11-23 15:51                 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:49               ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:56                 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:32           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 16:50             ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:49         ` John Stoffel
2005-11-23 15:27       ` Martin Mares
2005-11-22 21:28   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-22 23:33   ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23  7:10   ` Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-23 19:47     ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-22 22:11 ` Christmas list for the kernel Bill Davidsen
2005-11-24  4:17   ` Rob Landley
2005-11-23 22:23 ` Pavel Machek

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