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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong number of serial port detected
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:35:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051210103538.GB16104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512091254.44770.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:54:44PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2005 7:37 am, Jason Dravet wrote:
> > The question I have 
> > is with all of this plug and play stuff in our PCs shouldn't it be possible 
> > to get the correct number of ports, ask the bios or the pci bus or 
> > something?
> 
> Yes.  ACPI (or even PNPBIOS) should tell us about all the "legacy"
> ports, and PCI or other bus enumeration should tell us about all the
> rest.

Unless I stick a serial card into an industrial PC.  And yes, ISA
serial cards are still sold:

http://www.amplicon.co.uk/dr-prod3.cfm/groupId/10740/secid/10177.htm

ISA serial cards will not show up in ACPI, PNPBIOS or any other bus
enumeration scheme.  The only way to use them is via setserial.

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-10 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2005-12-10 14:24         ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-10 15:46           ` Russell King
2005-12-10 17:56             ` Jason Dravet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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

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