On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:46:24AM +0000, Dr Jaime V. Miro wrote:
> That was compiled in, as usual. My Char dev options are (and have
> always been, in previous kernels too):
>
> CONFIG_SERIAL
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE
> CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD
> CONFIG_SERIAL_21285
> CONFIG_SERIAL_21285_CONSOLE
Depends which was your previous kernel. It changed about 8 months to a
year ago, or maybe more. It was certainly around the time when it got
integrated into my tree.
> This dev entry is all new to me.
> b4 footbridge used ttyS0 as the console, didn't it?
Yes, but it caused problems with NetWinders and any other system which
had a FB serial port with conventional 16550 ports. The only sane way
is to do things properly. If you want to discuss this point more,
_please_ don't do it on the mailing list. Thanks.
> After you've mentioned that to me, I've looked around and find out
> that was a device update for 2.4. Hence, in case anybody is stuck
> in the same fundamental issue, here is a doc which might be worth
> looking:
>
>
>http://www.funet.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-html/patch-2.4.0-prerelease/linux_Documentation_devices.txt.html
> http://web1.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/devices.txt.html
The official source:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/
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