MacSerial and Serial driver cohabitation

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>Powerbooks kernels compiled by Paul Mackerras have a quick fix in the
>serial driver in order to make it skip the first 2 ttyS entries when
>compiled on PMAC architecture. This fix works but was never included
>in the main kernel because it is just a simple hack.

AFAIK, Paul and the serial driver maintainer agreed on a new mecanism for
fixing that problem once for all. I didn't check but I beleive it should
be in 2.4 and could probably be backported if really necessary.

Ben.


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