Re: Stallion EasyIO and devfs

[Donald Thompson <dlt@dataventures.com>]

Works correctly. Didn't patch properly into 2.4.7 properly, think it
just
had the wrong line numbers. But patching it in by hand was no problem.
I'm 
missing compatability symlinks, so that I get links from /dev/ttyE/* to 
/dev/ttyE*, but thats another problem.

-Don

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Donald Thompson writes:
> > I've got a stallion EasyIO PCI 4 port card running on kernel 2.4.4.
> > Loading the stallion.o module does not seem to create the proper device files
> > for me using devfs.
> >
> > Upon loading the module I get the following devices created:
> >
> > /dev/ttyE
> > /dev/cue
> > /dev/staliomem/0
> > /dev/staliomem/1
> > /dev/staliomem/2
> > /dev/staliomem/3
> >
> > I don't get /dev/ttyE0 through /dev/ttyE3 or /dev/ttyE/0 through
> > /dev/ttyE/3, which is what I believe should be happening.
> 
> Please apply the following patch to drivers/char/stallion.c and let me
> know if that helps.
> 
>                                 Regards,
> 
>                                         Richard....
> Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
> Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
> 
> --- stallion.c~ Fri Mar  2 14:12:07 2001
> +++ stallion.c  Mon Jul 30 21:08:34 2001
> @@ -139,8 +139,13 @@
>  static char    *stl_drvtitle = "Stallion Multiport Serial Driver";
>  static char    *stl_drvname = "stallion";
>  static char    *stl_drvversion = "5.6.0";
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
> +static char    *stl_serialname = "ttyE/%d";
> +static char    *stl_calloutname = "cue/%d";
> +#else
>  static char    *stl_serialname = "ttyE";
>  static char    *stl_calloutname = "cue";
> +#endif
> 
>  static struct tty_driver       stl_serial;
>  static struct tty_driver       stl_callout;