Re: Christmas list for the kernel

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 11/23/05

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    To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:36:53 +0000

    On Maw, 2005-11-22 at 16:41 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
    > An example of this is that the serial driver is hard coded to report
    > four legacy serial ports when my system physically only has two. I
    > have to change a #define and recompile the kernel to change this.

    It does an autodetect sequence to find the ports. If it reports ttyS0-S3
    your system probably has them, they may just not be wired to external
    ports and that is kinda tricky to autodetect

    > looks for everything again anyway. In a more friendly system X would
    > use the info the kernel provides and automatically configure itself
    > for the devices present or hotplugged. You could get rid of your
    > xorg.cong file in this model.

    Not really as half of xorg.conf is preferences

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