From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933299AbXGKVtq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759826AbXGKVtj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:49:39 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:46551 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756895AbXGKVti (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:49:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:48:42 +0100 From: Russell King To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized Message-ID: <20070711214842.GE2301@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <200707101703.36173.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <20070711071742.GA12952@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200707111005.53836.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20070711194050.GB28258@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <46954150.7050707@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46954150.7050707@sun.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:45:04PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >Indeed, and since distros still haven't picked up my setserial v3, > >I see little chance of that ever being practical. Not that I've > >really tried very hard to get them to - no real idea who to contact > >to make that happen, and of course I've no interest in making it > >happen anymore. > > so remove these extra phantom devices, the kernel distros will use your > setserial v3. You made a connection which wasn't there - setserial v3 doesn't allow this either, but it is a cleaner and slightly more extensible implementation of setserial v2. It does, however, drop support for the things which 2.6 kernels don't support, such as the setting of the multiport addresses and masks. So it wouldn't be suitable for shipping as-is with (eg) 2.4 kernels. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: