Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750983AbVKWPTV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:19:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750968AbVKWPTV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:19:21 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.192]:37645 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbVKWPTU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:19:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TH5LXiZKZ+U6Q8rEYRvsn3J1XWAppqSSK/By9CaEIkeOkqx6Dq7FNB2Lgq5XSqvntPATh1CSx0RO2vIBhpx/5iTOU8q2NNDbImezBaDmAYk5lle1NQe6frI+cFkLX2S8Ki9yxpvnHNoFdHVVvdXad8k30kOvyg/kQBlkWtmmcqE= Message-ID: <9e4733910511230719h67fa96bdxdeb654aa12f18e67@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:19:19 -0500 From: Jon Smirl To: Vojtech Pavlik , Greg KH , lkml , rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel In-Reply-To: <20051123150349.GA15449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9e4733910511221031o44dd90caq2b24fbac1a1bae7b@mail.gmail.com> <20051122204918.GA5299@kroah.com> <9e4733910511221313t4a1e3c67wc7b08160937eb5c5@mail.gmail.com> <20051123121726.GA7328@ucw.cz> <9e4733910511230643j64922738p709fecd6c86b4a95@mail.gmail.com> <20051123150349.GA15449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1414 Lines: 45 On 11/23/05, 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. This is confusing... Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A /sys/bus/platform/devices/serial8250 [jonsmirl@jonsmirl serial8250]$ ls bus driver power tty:ttyS0 tty:ttyS1 tty:ttyS2 tty:ttyS3 uevent [jonsmirl@jonsmirl serial8250]$ -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/