Registartion of two different pcmci cards
Russell King
rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jun 13 04:48:11 EDT 2006
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:38:09AM +0200, Tobias wrote:
> When i use only one card i.e. the Merlin U630 i can remove and plug in this
> card several times and it is always registered as ttyS4. But when i insert
> the AirCard after having removed the Merlin U630, the AirCard is registered
> as ttyS5. When did not plug in the Merlin U630 before inserting the AirCard
> it is registered as ttyS4.
>
> Can someone tell me why the device does change ?
Probably because of the different addresses each gets. The serial layer
attempts to always provide the same ttyS device for a port at the same
address.
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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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