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Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4

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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@...>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-serial@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 2:39 pm

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:05:41AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

It's not by accident but by design.  It's quite intentional that it
remembers the addresses of serial ports, and if another port is
registered later with the same base address, it gets the same name.

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Russell King
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[patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Bjorn Helgaas, (Wed Jan 16, 1:05 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Russell King, (Wed Jan 16, 2:39 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Bjorn Helgaas, (Wed Jan 16, 3:59 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Russell King, (Wed Jan 16, 4:14 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Bjorn Helgaas, (Thu Jan 17, 12:07 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Russell King, (Thu Jan 17, 12:16 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] serial: explicitly request ttyS0-3 for COM1-4, Bjorn Helgaas, (Thu Jan 17, 1:56 pm)