Re: Serial design

[Russell K. - A. L. <li...@ar...>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:22:11AM -0500, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
> I agree, as serial devices tend not to be essential to booting as are
> most PCI ones.  Hence, most ISA PnP and PCMCIA/PC CARD are detected
> in user space ... though a kernel "helper" driver is not out of line
> should one be necessary.

Actually, all serial ports are detected by in-kernel code, apart from
PCMCIA, which uses cardmgr to bind the serial_cs driver with the card
(but serial_cs still works out where the serial ports are).

User space does get some say in the matter via setserial, but that is
currently only used as an admin tool.