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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:17:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711071742.GA12952@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707101703.36173.yinghai.lu@sun.com>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:03:35PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized
> 
> if the port is not initialized with correct iobase, and membase, we don't
> need to add that port.
> for x86, when pnpacpi is enabled, we will not get extra ttyS1/ttyS2/ttyS3 in
> /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty
> 
> Sign-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>

What if someone wants to run setserial on /dev/ttyS1 to set it's base
address, irq and other parameters?  People still do this.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11  0:03 [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized Yinghai Lu
2007-07-11  7:17 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-07-11 16:05   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-11 19:40     ` Russell King
2007-07-11 20:45       ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-11 21:48         ` Russell King

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