Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:50:34 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong number of serial port detected
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:44:29AM -0600, Jason Dravet wrote:
> So I ask this mailing list Can the kernel detect the proper number of 
> serial ports or not?

It does detect serial ports found in the machine.

However, it _always_ offers the configured number of serial devices.
This is to allow folk whose ports are not autodetected to configure
them appropriately via the setserial command.  If they were not
available, they could not configure them.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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