add the ability to the serial modules to support something like com1irq=4
com2irq=3 com3irq=...... then you stick'em in your modules conf.. No
userspace nonsence and none of us get nonstandard settings..
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Isaac Connor wrote:
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> > Add this to your /etc/modules.conf
> > post-install serial /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
> > Works for me.
>
> Okay, everyone has missed my point.
>
> I am just being purposefully anal about this...but I should be able to put
> a line options serial com3 irq 4 blah blah blah, and just have the serial
> module use the correct irq etc from the beginning. I (for some reason)
> don't like the idea of having to spawn a program to reconfigure the
> module on every load...seems to me that that is a few cpu cycles that
> could be better spent doing something else.
>
> Lastly, I just wanna say that I don't intend to change my config...I was
> merely trying to voice my opinion on how it should be set up...
>
> Isaac Connor
> iconnor@uwaterloo.ca
>