Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030351AbVLGV2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:28:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751793AbVLGV2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:28:12 -0500 Received: from smtp12.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.20]:5048 "EHLO smtp12.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751792AbVLGV2L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:28:11 -0500 X-ME-UUID: 20051207212810261.3FB5E1C00085@mwinf1212.wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: wrong number of serial port detected From: Xavier Bestel To: Russell King Cc: Jason Dravet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051207211551.GL6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20051207155034.GB6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051207211551.GL6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:28:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1133990886.6184.2.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 21 Le mercredi 07 d?cembre 2005 ? 21:15 +0000, Russell King a ?crit : > 4. User tries the well documented "setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x220 irq 5" > procedure, which has been supported since Linux 1.x > > 5. User finds that, because there is no ttyS2 device in /dev, they > can't configure their card. Well, instead of polluting everybody's /dev for the 3 users having such cards, why not just tell the user to run MAKEDEV /dev/ttyS2 ; setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x220 irq 5 instead ? (Or even mknod) Xav - 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/