On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 02:36 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > because some people wanted to be able to use 32 port serial cards and the like, > and due to the way the serial core works, you compile it for a maximum number Thanks for a good explanation, Dave. > Another common misconception is that the ttyS > nodes are allocated sequentially, but the IO port that the serial port is mapped > to is what determines which /dev/ttyS node it ends up with. > So having ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyS12, ttyS13 and no other nodes is possible for eg. Yeah, I knew that. In versions of Fedora prior to udev, when I had to put some lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local for the card to work, I had ttyS0, ttyS1, and ttyS4 through ttyS7. I've seen this on other OS's too.
