Re: ttyS1, S2, etc...

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jurgen Botz writes:
> I have a six-port BOCA serial card.  It is supported by the standard
> serial driver with multi-port extension and share IRQ.  devfs doesn't
> do anything with this... I have to manually create the devices.  I
> think that may be inevitable, since even the serial driver can't
> really detect these kinds of cards and you have to use 'setserial'
> configure them.  What's the best way to deal with this?  Maybe 
> devfsd special case for them?  Or should the serial driver have
> devfs code to do the right thing once setserial 'activates' a port?

In drivers/char/serial.c:register_serial() there are calls which
create devfs entries. So the low-level serial driver should call
register_serial() and everything should be fine. It certainly works
for PCMCIA serial cards. Insert the card and the devfs entry magically
appears.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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