Re: wrong number of serial port detected

Russell King
2005-12-07T15:50:57Z

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:44:29AM -0600, Jason Dravet wrote:
> So I ask this mailing list Can the kernel detect the proper number of
> serial ports or not?

It does detect serial ports found in the machine.

However, it _always_ offers the configured number of serial devices.
This is to allow folk whose ports are not autodetected to configure
them appropriately via the setserial command. If they were not
available, they could not configure them.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core