Re: 2.6.x kernels and ttyS45 for 6 serial ports ?

[Russell King]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:35:39PM +0200, Ruud Linders wrote:
> Now checking this on 2.6.5 it got more confusing, I now have with
> total of 6 serial ports a device number ttyS45 !?

And what happens if you detect a PCI modem at IO address 0x2e8 after
you've detected your PCI card and assigned it ttyS4?

Don't you think that would complain that their modem should be assigned
ttyS4 rather than their PCI multiport card getting it?

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