Re: serial port multiplexing

[Russell King]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:20:45PM +0100, Rahul Tank wrote:
>     I am a newbee tryinging for serial port
> multiplexing. Currently my driver supports for one
> port
> (/dev/ttyS0). However i want to use the same physical
> port for 2 virtual ports.I am NOT sending two type of
> data simultaneously. I want to first reigister my
> driver for /dev/ttyS0. When the kernel  has booted ,i
> want to disable it. Then i want to enable the driver
> to register for say /dev/ttyS1.
>   in short i don't want the console to have controle
> over the serial port.

Try setting the kernel message level to zero after boot.  That
will prevent the kernel from displaying any further messages to
that serial port, except when a serious problem (eg, oops) occurs.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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