Messages in this thread | | | From | "Paul Rolland" <> | Subject | Re: Serial port numbering (ttyS..) wrong for 2.5.61+ | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:48:14 +0200 |
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Hello,
> Since I tried the 2.5 kernel versions somewhere in the 2.5.6x range, I > see rather odd port naming for the extra 4 serial ports on a PCI-card. Which driver are you using ?
> The first two are numered as ttyS14, ttyS15 while the last two are > ttyS2 and ttyS3 ! > I tried to find where these numbers are coming from but > couldn't really > find an obvious place in the various drivers/char/* or > drivers/serial/* > files.
Numbering seems to be coming out of drivers/serial/core.c : uart_find_match_or_unused which is responsible for finding an unused state for the port.
However, the code there seems to be clean and I guess we should look where the state are initialized.
Paul
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