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