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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "Thomas Hood" <jdthoodREMOVETHIS@yahoo.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: "serial" does not show up in /proc/interrupts
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:29:37 -0400
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From: "Thomas Hood" <jdthoodREMOVETHIS@yahoo.co.uk>
> I am not using /dev/ttyS0 at the moment, so IRQ4 isn't listed
> as used.  I assume that's normal.  But I do have /dev/ttyS1

That is normal. serial.c unregisters the irq if it's no longer
needed.

> open; it uses IRQ3.  But note that the name of the serial
> driver is not printed in the list.  Why not?
>
>   3:       1979          XT-PIC

If you have it open, it should appear.

> Fishy!

Indeed.

..Stu


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