Re: questions about 8250 uart support for adhoc boards

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 13:06:29 EST


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:02:57PM -0500, Rob Prowel wrote:
> See below for a (script) dump of that demonstrates the behavior I
> describe. Additional ports are not configurable until a driver such as
> fourport is loaded. This is in 2.6.20.1 and 2.6.17 (those versions I
> have tested).

Check what /proc/tty/driver/serial contains, rather than relying on
setserial. setserial distributed by distros hasn't kept up with the
changes in the serial layer.

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