Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4

[Bjorn Helgaas]

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
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