From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong number of serial port detected
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:28:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133990886.6184.2.camel@bip.parateam.prv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051207211551.GL6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 21:15 +0000, Russell King a écrit :
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 15:44 Jason Dravet
2005-12-07 15:50 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 19:59 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-07 21:15 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 21:28 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2005-12-07 21:31 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 21:38 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 23:03 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-07 23:46 ` Russell King
2005-12-08 0:50 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-08 3:09 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-07 16:46 ` Russell King
2006-01-07 21:05 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-08 1:23 ` Jason Dravet
2006-01-08 9:08 ` Russell King
2005-12-08 3:02 Jason Dravet
2005-12-08 10:54 ` Russell King
2005-12-09 14:37 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-09 17:27 ` Russell King
2005-12-09 19:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-12-10 1:46 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-10 10:35 ` Russell King
2005-12-10 14:24 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-10 15:46 ` Russell King
2005-12-10 17:56 ` Jason Dravet
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