[2.5.49] Serial registered twice

[2.5.49] Serial registered twice

[Kronos]

In my bootlog I see this:

Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ IRQ sharing enabled
tts/0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tts/1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pnp: the driver 'serial' has been registered
pnp: pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:0c' and the driver 'serial'
devfs_register(tts/0): could not append to parent, err: -17
tts/0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pnp: pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:10' and the driver 'serial'
devfs_register(tts/1): could not append to parent, err: -17
tts/1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

>From my .config:

CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_NAMES=y
CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y


ciao,
Luca
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Re: [2.5.49] Serial registered twice

[Russell King]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:38:42PM +0100, Kronos wrote:
> In my bootlog I see this:
> 
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ IRQ sharing enabled
> tts/0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> tts/1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pnp: the driver 'serial' has been registered
> pnp: pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:0c' and the driver 'serial'
> devfs_register(tts/0): could not append to parent, err: -17
> tts/0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> pnp: pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:10' and the driver 'serial'
> devfs_register(tts/1): could not append to parent, err: -17
> tts/1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Indeed.  Although it is harmless, it isn't what the average user
expects.  I could tweak the serial layer to refuse to re-initialise
an already initalised port.

However, the devfs_regsiter problem is one that needs solving.

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