Re: Serial module arguments !?

Henrik Storner (storner@osiris.ping.dk)
Wed, 1 May 1996 01:06:34 +0200


In linux.kernel ism@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Ian) writes:

>On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

>> From: Joshua Spoerri <josh@cooper.edu>
>> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:01:38 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> How can I pass arguments to the serial driver loadable module?
>> Specifically, how can i set an irq before loading?
>>
>> Right now.... you don't. You can however use setserial after the module
>> is loaded, though.
>>
>So if people are using kerneld to load the serial module they have to rerun
>setserial every time the module is loaded? Also I heard a rummer that in
>the 1.3. kernels that you nolonger needed to do setserial v_hi. Is this
>the case ?

You can always include a "post-install serial /sbin/setserial opts" in
your conf.modules. See the latest kerneld mini-HOWTO for the details
on this: http://eolicom.olicom.dk/~storner/kerneld-mini-HOWTO.html