Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:38:39 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports |
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:51:45PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > It seems devfsd has an annoying "feature". I bought a PCI card to get a > couple (2) more serial ports. The kernel doesn't seem to set up the > serial ports at boot, so devfs never creates an entry. However, post > boot, since there is no entries, I cannot configure the serial ports > with setserial. So basically devfsd = no PCI based serial add on?
Yep. This I pointed this out as a flaw to devfs a long, long time (years!) ago, but Richard chose not to listen to me. Personally, I solve this (and other) problems by simply refusing to use devfs.
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