Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751021AbVKWPbR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:31:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751032AbVKWPbR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:31:17 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.197]:27495 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751021AbVKWPbQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:31:16 -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=oHJ0eCqtd8pijx/whBPnLnm51VJZEZMlV7Ju55QJsZZOFzELtOOj1D9Vo7X0emrrYJHkFvW/tupuP+l2BWNz4Ag+d+tNLjHPM3Qg0YkOnUvGIcI/QV5vANe8GnsghqPCNNwhUOQP88qVXdDY+HSPAcYJcT7DktizmUk5F/BGeVg= Message-ID: <9e4733910511230731p12d7c712pe20e89886832c95f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:31:15 -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: <20051123152558.GB15449@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> <9e4733910511230719h67fa96bdxdeb654aa12f18e67@mail.gmail.com> <20051123152558.GB15449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 31 On 11/23/05, Russell King wrote: > > 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 Could this be the source of the four port versus the two port confusion in the higher layers? It says 4 ports and list four ports, but two are duplicates. > > Yes it is, but it's down to the way folk want things to operate. The > first two come from the legacy table in include/asm-*/serial.h. The > second two come from something-that-I-have-no-clue-about but is probably > ACPI related. Dunno. We're back to the far-too-many-complex-ways-to- > initialise-serial problem again that I've given up really caring how > many lines of serial printk junk folk end up with. I can't fight it > all. -- 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/