Re: Christmas list for the kernel

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>]

Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > My system has:
> > 2 serial
> >
> > In /sys/bus/platform/devices I see this:
> > serial8250
> > shouldn't there be entries for all of the legacy devices?
> >
> > In /dev
> > ttyS0
> > ttyS1
> > ttyS2
> > ttyS3
>
> You're basically confused about serial ports.  The kernel serial devices
> whether or not hardware is found, to allow programs such as setserial to
> function.
>
> If you disagree with that, there'll be an equal number of people who
> have serial cards that need setserial who will in turn disagree with
> you.

But if no hardware is connected to those devices, then where does the 
driver route the setserial stuff?

We had a similar discussion regarding hal and the final solution was to 
check the uart type to determine if the port was there or not.

Rgds
Pierre

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