Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports

[Bryan Whitehead <driver@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Quick question: What PCI serial port add on card works with devfs in 
kernel 2.4.19 out of the box? No pissing around?

While I'm messing around with the one I got (that doesn't work) I need 
one that does... any suggestions??

Thanks to all for the help!!

Ed Vance wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 3:39 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:51:45PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>>
>>>It seems devfsd has an annoying "feature". I bought a PCI 
>>>card to get a couple (2) more serial ports. The kernel doesn't 
>>>seem to set up the serial ports at boot, so devfs never 
>>>creates an entry. However, post boot, since there is no 
>>>entries, I cannot configure the serial ports with setserial. 
>>>So basically devfsd = no PCI based serial add on?
>>
>>Yep.  This I pointed this out as a flaw to devfs a long, long time
>>(years!) ago, but Richard chose not to listen to me.  Personally, I
>>solve this (and other) problems by simply refusing to use devfs.
> 
> 
> Ted,
> 
> Will Bryan get the proper devfs entries if he patches serial.c to 
> recognize his card at kernel initialization, or is there more 
> weirdness expected? 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ed
> 
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