From: Jacek Kawa <jfk@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test11 -- Failed to open /dev/ttyS0: No such device
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:28:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201072800.GA2026@finwe.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.87vfp1nuxh.fsf@eicq.dnsalias.org>
Steve Youngs wrote:
> >>I _think_ this patch will bring back auto-loading of the serial module
> >>for you. Please let me know how it goes.
>
> JK> Well: patched, installed new serial_core.ko, then depmod -a, and
> JK> try to access ttySwhatever.
>
> As Russell said, the patch was wrong, revert it. Sorry about that, my
> bad.
Nothing bad happened :)
> I'm pretty sure that the problem has its roots in...
> --- a/fs/char_dev.c Sun Nov 23 17:33:38 2003
> +++ b/fs/char_dev.c Sun Nov 23 17:33:38 2003
> @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
>
> static struct kobject *base_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data)
> {
> - request_module("char-major-%d", MAJOR(dev));
> + request_module("char-major-%d-%d", MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev));
> return NULL;
> }
> ...from Rusty, which went into 2.6.0-test10.
> Does this work any better?
> --- linux-2.6.0-test11/drivers/serial/8250.c 2003-11-27 11:03:42.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test11-sy/drivers/serial/8250.c 2003-12-01 11:40:44.000000000 +1000
[...]
> @@ -2195,3 +2196,4 @@
> MODULE_PARM(force_rsa, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(PORT_RSA_MAX) "i");
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_rsa, "Force I/O ports for RSA");
> #endif
> +MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(TTY_MAJOR);
1. Yup, with first patch revertet everything works as before
2. With both patch applied I don't have to manually load
any module (8250 and serial_core are autoloaded), but
my pseudomodule serial isn't loaded anymore.
Thanks!
bye
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Jacek Kawa **SPAM - Stowarzyszenie Polskich Artystów Muzyków**
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-30 7:17 2.6.0-test11 -- Failed to open /dev/ttyS0: No such device William Park
2003-11-30 10:23 ` bert hubert
2003-11-30 11:36 ` Jacek Kawa
2003-11-30 15:54 ` Steve Youngs
2003-11-30 16:00 ` Russell King
2003-11-30 22:22 ` Jacek Kawa
2003-12-01 2:17 ` Steve Youngs
2003-12-01 7:28 ` Jacek Kawa [this message]
2003-11-30 19:05 ` William Park
2003-11-30 18:40 ` William Park
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