2010/11/15 Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>: > Hi Bastian, > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:50:00PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:22:46PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote: >> > our company is developing multi port serial cards among other >> > products. The main problem is, when the customers first install this >> > devices especially those with 8 ports, they get only few ports >> > detected, cause CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS is set to 4 (at least >> > by Lenny). >> >> SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS needs to be changed first. >> >> > Serial interface is >> > still not dead in spite of new technologies. So this change is really >> > needed. >> >> Well, someone could change the 8250 driver to actually allow >> adding/removing ports on runtime, like everything else does it, >> including the whole bunch of usb-serial drivers. The the time beeing, >> there is a parameter nr_uarts. > This popped up recently on linux-arm-kernel ML: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/92400/focus=93334 > > So it seems there is more general work to do first. > (Note, I don't know the details, I'm just trying to get the right people > in the discussion.)
That's really a time to make the allocation dynamic. But for the time being it won't hurt to increase the number of detected serial cards. openSUSE has already accepted such approach: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652954. Regards, Yegor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
