... A modern driver for a device will find out the bus-resource configuration without you having to tell it anything. ... In the worst case you must hard-code the bus-resources into the kernel (or a module) and recompile. In the middle are cases such as where you run a program to give the bus-resource info to the driver or put the info in a configuration file. ... You give such bus-resources as a parameter to the kernel or to a loadable module. ... Setserial is often run from a start-up file. ...