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Message-Id: <200810211608.04121.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
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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