On 25 Jul 2007 18:30:50 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > That cannot be a justification for breaking serial port probe that has > > > been working for 10+ years. > > > > Agree. With my "nearest thing we have to a serial maintainer" hat on > > please revert this Andrew. Bjorn - lets discuss putting the right APIs in > > place so you can busy out serial ports from other drivers when they are a > > shared resource. > > One alternative would be to make the default behaviour dependent on > DMI year and acpi enabled. On modern systems with ACPI ACPI serial > probing should work (modulo bugs which can be probably worked out) > Let's say >= 2003 ?
That isn't the problem with the IR stuff. In many cases the user wants the port to be showing up as a serial port for SIR usage. We need a clean automatic SIR/FIR switching for them. It has nothing to do with whether the ACPI data is trustworthy or not. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
