From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:20:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438488A0.8050104@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051123150349.GA15449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
>> My system has:
>> 2 serial
>>
>> In /sys/bus/platform/devices I see this:
>> serial8250
>> shouldn't there be entries for all of the legacy devices?
>>
>> In /dev
>> ttyS0
>> ttyS1
>> ttyS2
>> ttyS3
>
> You're basically confused about serial ports. The kernel serial devices
> whether or not hardware is found, to allow programs such as setserial to
> function.
>
> If you disagree with that, there'll be an equal number of people who
> have serial cards that need setserial who will in turn disagree with
> you.
>
But if no hardware is connected to those devices, then where does the
driver route the setserial stuff?
We had a similar discussion regarding hal and the final solution was to
check the uart type to determine if the port was there or not.
Rgds
Pierre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-23 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-22 18:31 Christmas list for the kernel Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 18:39 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-22 19:10 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 1:09 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 1:37 ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-23 2:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 5:18 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 5:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 16:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 19:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-22 19:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-22 19:57 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 22:16 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-23 22:12 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-22 20:49 ` Greg KH
2005-11-22 21:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 21:28 ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-11-22 21:41 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-22 21:56 ` David Lang
2005-11-22 22:00 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-22 23:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 23:56 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 9:09 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 8:47 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-23 14:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 17:21 ` Gene Heskett
2005-11-23 17:30 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 19:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-22 23:35 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 23:58 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 0:37 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-23 11:19 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 12:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 14:43 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:03 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:12 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:56 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:05 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:37 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 16:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 17:05 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 17:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 17:16 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 17:24 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 17:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 19:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 15:19 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:25 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:31 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:36 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:02 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:16 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:23 ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-23 16:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:27 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-23 16:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 16:33 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-23 15:20 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2005-11-23 15:29 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:39 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-11-23 15:51 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 15:49 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:56 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 16:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23 16:50 ` Jon Smirl
2005-11-23 15:49 ` John Stoffel
2005-11-23 15:27 ` Martin Mares
2005-11-22 21:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-22 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 7:10 ` Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-23 19:47 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-22 22:11 ` Christmas list for the kernel Bill Davidsen
2005-11-24 4:17 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-23 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
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