[CentOS] Re: centos] Default number of serial ports

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