From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Rob Prowel <prowel@kuchera.com>
Cc: Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: questions about 8250 uart support for adhoc boards
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:16:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070308151612.GD30023@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E49759.6050301@kuchera.com>
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:40:57PM -0500, Rob Prowel wrote:
> Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> >Would it be more intuitive to give ports the default uartclk of
> >1843200 at init time? That would avoid this issue, but would make the
> >baud rates come out wrong on hardware with a non-standard clock, if a
> >base baud wasn't specified.
> >
> >
>
> I prefer the option to specify the base baud rate in setserial from a
> startup script. Having the additional ports at BAUD 0 (unusable) until
> some explicit action is taken strikes me as a safer option, provided
> this gets properly documented in the kernel Documentation directory and
> in Linux HOWTO docs.
Is someone going to do that? Who volunteers?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-08 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 17:05 questions about 8250 uart support for adhoc boards Rob Prowel
2007-02-23 20:21 ` Russell King
2007-02-23 20:48 ` Rob Prowel
2007-02-24 20:34 ` Stuart MacDonald
2007-02-26 17:02 ` Rob Prowel
2007-02-26 18:05 ` Russell King
2007-02-27 14:24 ` Rob Prowel
2007-02-27 17:38 ` Russell King
2007-02-27 19:06 ` Stuart MacDonald
2007-02-27 20:40 ` Rob Prowel
2007-03-08 15:16 ` Russell King [this message]
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