Re: wrong number of serial port detected

["Jason Dravet" <dravet@hotmail.com>]

> From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
> To: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: wrong number of serial port detected
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:50:34 +0000
>
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:44:29AM -0600, Jason Dravet wrote:
> > So I ask this mailing list Can the kernel detect the proper number of
> > serial ports or not?
>
> It does detect serial ports found in the machine.
>
> However, it _always_ offers the configured number of serial devices.
> This is to allow folk whose ports are not autodetected to configure
> them appropriately via the setserial command.  If they were not
> available, they could not configure them.
Then may I ask how XP does it?  I have to dual boot between XP and Fedora.  
When I go into XP's device manager I see all of the appropriate hardware 
listed, no extra serial ports.  When I boot into Fedora and go into /dev, I 
see the same hardware except I have 32 serial ports and 64 tty nodes (tty is 
for virtual terminals right?).  How can 1 OS show the correct number and 
another show the wrong number?  I ask so I can better understand what is 
going on.

Thanks,
Jason


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