Re: wrong number of serial port detected

[Russell King]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:09:16PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Make the number of UARTs registered configurable.
> Also add a nr_uarts module option to the 8250 code
> to override this, up to a maximum of CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS
> 
> This should appease people who complain about a proliferation
> of /dev/ttyS & /sysfs nodes whilst at the same time allowing
> a single kernel image to support the rarer occasions of
> lots of devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

Any chance of an updated patch please?  It doesn't appear to be
healthy:

patching file drivers/serial/8250.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 54 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 2119 (offset 70 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 2069 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 2160 (offset 70 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 2194 (offset 3 lines).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 2297 with fuzz 2 (offset 70 lines).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 2352 with fuzz 1 (offset 1 line).
misordered hunks! output would be garbled
Hunk #8 FAILED at 2421.
Hunk #9 succeeded at 2381 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).
Hunk #10 succeeded at 2492 (offset 69 lines).
Hunk #11 succeeded at 2429 (offset -3 lines).
Hunk #12 succeeded at 2510 (offset 69 lines).
Hunk #13 succeeded at 2523 (offset -3 lines).
Hunk #14 succeeded at 2659 (offset 69 lines).
1 out of 14 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/serial/8250.c.rej
patching file drivers/serial/Kconfig
patching file Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Thanks.

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