Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 18:08:20 EST


On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:08:41 pm n0ano@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>                         Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
>                         UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
>                         switching to the matching ttyS device later.  The
> -                       options are the same as for ttyS, above.
> +                       "options" are the same as for ttyS, above.  "base"
> +                       is base baud, defaults to 115200, which is used to
> +                       calculate the divisor for the crystal frequency
> +                       (typically this is the fastest baud rate supported
> +                       by the uart).
>

Down to nits now :-) That last sentence would be clearer to me if it
said '(typically "base" is the fastest baud rate supported by the UART).'
I capitalized UART to match the one earlier.

Bjorn
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