Re: [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized

[Russell King]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:03:35PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> [PATCH] serial: do not add port that is not initialized
> 
> if the port is not initialized with correct iobase, and membase, we don't
> need to add that port.
> for x86, when pnpacpi is enabled, we will not get extra ttyS1/ttyS2/ttyS3 in
> /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty
> 
> Sign-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@xxxxxxx>

What if someone wants to run setserial on /dev/ttyS1 to set it's base
address, irq and other parameters?  People still do this.

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