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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: Ivan Passos <ivan@cyclades.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x)
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 23:20:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C394C36.C9041722@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C38BC19.72ECE86@zip.com.au>, <3C34024A.EDA31D24@zip.com.au> <3C33E0D3.B6E932D6@zip.com.au> <3C33BCF3.20BE9E92@cyclades.com> <200201030637.g036bxe03425@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200201062012.g06KCIu16158@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3C38BC19.72ECE86@zip.com.au> <200201070636.g076asR25565@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> > > Why exactly is just "ttyS" broken?
> >
> > umm..  Because it doesn't tell the user which serial port the
> > message pertains to?
> 
> Exactly where is it broken? I look at my dmesg output and things look
> fine.
> 

Try disabling devfs.

At the head-of-thread, Ivan said:


> This was spotted by a Cyclades customer who was getting overrun msgs
> as:
> 
> ttyC: 1 input overrun(s)
> 
> After he changed the driver.name to be "ttyC%d", he started to get
> properly formatted msgs, such as:
> 
> ttyC39: 1 input overrun(s)
> 
> This problem would happen on any msg that used the function
> tty_name() to get the TTY name, and after the change the problem
> disappeared completely.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-07  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-03  2:07 Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x) Ivan Passos
2002-01-03  4:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-03  6:37   ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-03  7:03     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-06 20:12       ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-06 20:36         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-06 20:27           ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-06 21:05         ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07  6:36           ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-07  7:20             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-08  5:03             ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08  6:15               ` David Weinehall
2002-01-08  6:23                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08 18:54                   ` Ivan Passos
2002-01-08 21:58                   ` Michael H. Warfield
2002-01-08 22:11                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08 23:33                       ` Ivan Passos
2002-01-09 16:36                         ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-10  9:14                           ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-01-08 18:47               ` Ivan Passos
2002-01-03 16:32   ` Ivan Passos

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