Re: Hard coding default COM3/4 IRQ.
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mon, 31 May 1999 23:33:30 +1000
Theodore Y. Ts'o writes:
> There is a CONFIG option for doing autodetection of the IRQ,
> CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ; you need to answer yes to
> CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED to see the extra serial config options. The
> problem is that it doesn't always work. I suspect that Linux folk
> very often have a lot more random hardware attached to their
> machines than Windows folks, and these random ISA bus cards can
> confuse an autodetection algorithm.
Does this also mean that auto IRQ detection using setserial is not
reliable?
BTW: what sort of confusion do you mean?
Regards,
Richard....
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