Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices

[n0ano]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:39:52AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>... 
> Here's another possibility, maybe too wordy, but maybe more straightforward:
> 
> +		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,clock]]
> 
> +			"clock" is the frequency of the crystal driving
> +			the UART clock (typically sixteen times the
> +			fastest baud rate supported by the UART).
> 
> +		port->uartclk = simple_strtoul(options, NULL, 0);
> 

We could do that but now the `clock' value becomes a very large
number that is very magic.  Putting in the highest baud rate seems
to make more sense than some magic number.

-- 
Don Dugger
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