Re: serial/8250: Increase number of serial ports detected to 32
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:22:46PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> our company is developing multi port serial cards among other
> products. The main problem is, when the customers first install this
> devices especially those with 8 ports, they get only few ports
> detected, cause CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS is set to 4 (at least
> by Lenny).
SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS needs to be changed first.
> Serial interface is
> still not dead in spite of new technologies. So this change is really
> needed.
Well, someone could change the 8250 driver to actually allow
adding/removing ports on runtime, like everything else does it,
including the whole bunch of usb-serial drivers. The the time beeing,
there is a parameter nr_uarts.
Bastian
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