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Consider a situation where I have an ARM based system and therefore no legacy ports. Say, I have two memory-mapped ports. I use device tree to describe the ports. What would be the config options I set so that I get only the two ports in my system? I do not want legacy ports being created automatically and I want it to be flexible enough that it creates the devices based only on the device tree. I expected setting SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS = 0 to work because the description said, "Set this to the maximum number of serial ports you want the kernel to register at boot time." Unfortunately, even though SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS was set to the default value of 4, I did not get any device nodes (because SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS was 0). This is what this change is addressing. SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS controls the maximum number of ports you can support. SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS specifies the number of ports you want to create automatically for legacy ports at boot time. All other ports will be created when serial8250_register_port is called (and if does not exceed the total number of supported ports as specified by SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS). Signed-off-by: Karthik Manamcheri <karthik.manamcheri@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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| 8250.c | ||
| 8250.h | ||
| 8250_accent.c | ||
| 8250_acorn.c | ||
| 8250_boca.c | ||
| 8250_dma.c | ||
| 8250_dw.c | ||
| 8250_early.c | ||
| 8250_em.c | ||
| 8250_exar_st16c554.c | ||
| 8250_fourport.c | ||
| 8250_fsl.c | ||
| 8250_gsc.c | ||
| 8250_hp300.c | ||
| 8250_hub6.c | ||
| 8250_pci.c | ||
| 8250_pnp.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| serial_cs.c | ||