Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754481AbYJUWIT (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751878AbYJUWIJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:08:09 -0400 Received: from g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.46]:24749 "EHLO g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751779AbYJUWII (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:08:08 -0400 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: n0ano@n0ano.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:08:03 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Alan Cox , donald.d.dugger@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200810142231.m9EMV95O002974@los-vmm.sc.intel.com> <200810201311.06602.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20081021200841.GL14490@xolotl.n0ano.com> In-Reply-To: <20081021200841.GL14490@xolotl.n0ano.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810211608.04121.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 22 On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:08:41 pm n0ano@n0ano.com wrote: > ????????????????????????Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 > ????????????????????????UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, > ????????????????????????switching to the matching ttyS device later. ?The > -???????????????????????options are the same as for ttyS, above. > +???????????????????????"options" are the same as for ttyS, above. ?"base" > +???????????????????????is base baud, defaults to 115200, which is used to > +???????????????????????calculate the divisor for the crystal frequency > +???????????????????????(typically this is the fastest baud rate supported > +???????????????????????by the uart). > Down to nits now :-) That last sentence would be clearer to me if it said '(typically "base" is the fastest baud rate supported by the UART).' I capitalized UART to match the one earlier. Bjorn -- 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/