On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Matt Schulte wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:54:39PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote: >> >> This will make sure that multiple serial port cards can be >> >> used out of the box. Otherwise the user must pass >> >> nr_uarts parameter, that will be often forgotten and increases >> >> support requests for serial card vendors. >> > >> > Has this really happened in the past? ?What is the downside of changing >> > this option that has been around for many years now? ?Also note that >> > multi-port serial cards are more rare these days than they used to be so >> > changing this seems a bit pointless now. >> > >> >> Multiport serial cards are not dead, we still sell bunches. This is >> one of those problems that really frustrates our customers. They want >> their ports to show up by default and the only way to do it is to >> recompile the kernel or modify the boot line. A lot of my customers >> don't like the 82510.nr_uarts work around in grub and so we have to >> hold their hands while they figure out how to recompile the kernel >> with support for more ports. I think the default number of ports >> should definitely be changed from 4 to at least 8, maybe even 16 or >> 32. > > Why not work with the distros to get it changed? If we change the > default within the kernel, it's still not going to change what they are > using at all, so you will still be having the same problem you are > today. Don't you think changing it here would eventually propagate down the chain to all of the distros? Or do you think they would ignore the change up here? Matt Schulte -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
