On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:39:34 am Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:05:41AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > When 8250_pnp discovers COM ports, we only get the correct ttyS names > > by accident -- we rely on serial8250_isa_init_ports(), which discovers > > the COM ports earlier using the addresses in SERIAL_PORT_DFNS. > > It's not by accident but by design. It's quite intentional that it > remembers the addresses of serial ports, and if another port is > registered later with the same base address, it gets the same name.
It's certainly by design that if we register a port twice, it gets the same name both times. But that's not quite what I was referring to. I meant that I don't think 8250_pnp should depend on the fact that COM1-4 have been previously discovered to get the right names. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
