Hi all: My question is concerning the default number of serial ports compiled into the standard CentOS 4.x kernel. It looks like the default is 8, is that correct, and is there a simple way to raise the default that without needing to recompile the kernel? I looked though the /proc directories and I do not see anything there. I have two 8 port serial cards, which bring my total serial ports to 18 with the two on the motherboard. The does system assigns ttyS* to the 2 onboard, and the first 6 on the first serial card. I can tweak these first 6 with setserial and they work My goal it avoid having to recompile the kernel from the stock disto. Thanks! ~Sean
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Sean McAdam wrote:> My question is concerning the default number of serial ports compiled into > the standard CentOS 4.x kernel. It looks like the default is 8, is that> My goal it avoid having to recompile the kernel from the stock disto.My thought is that there is no need to recompile - in releases past, the kernel previously supported more -- one just used /dev/MAKEDEV to make the additional devices and you were off to the races That said, there has been some rejiggering in the way devices are handled in 2.6 -- I'll spend a bit of time at the bench and see if things have changed. -- Russ Herrold