linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:08:03 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	n0ano@...no.com
Cc:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, donald.d.dugger@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:08:41 pm n0ano@...no.com wrote:
>                         Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
>                         UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
>                         switching to the matching ttyS device later.  The
> -                       options are the same as for ttyS, above.
> +                       "options" are the same as for ttyS, above.  "base"
> +                       is base baud, defaults to 115200, which is used to
> +                       calculate the divisor for the crystal frequency
> +                       (typically this is the fastest baud rate supported
> +                       by the uart).
> 

Down to nits now :-)  That last sentence would be clearer to me if it
said '(typically "base" is the fastest baud rate supported by the UART).'
I capitalized UART to match the one earlier.

Bjorn
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