Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750837AbVKWQAu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:00:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751150AbVKWQAu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:00:50 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:28431 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750837AbVKWQAt (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:00:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:29:50 +0000 From: Russell King To: Pierre Ossman Cc: Jon Smirl , Vojtech Pavlik , Greg KH , lkml Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel Message-ID: <20051123152950.GC15449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Pierre Ossman , Jon Smirl , Vojtech Pavlik , Greg KH , lkml 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> <438488A0.8050104@drzeus.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <438488A0.8050104@drzeus.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 24 On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:20:00PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > But if no hardware is connected to those devices, then where does the > driver route the setserial stuff? setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x200 irq 5 autoconfig and you might then end up with another serial port detected. If /dev/ttyS2 and above do not exist, you can't do that. That would in turn effectively prevent folk with some serial cards using them with Linux without editing and rebuilding their kernel. As for the rest of the "setserial stuff" it gets recorded against the port and remembered for when the hardware turns up, which it may do if it's your PCMCIA modem card. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/