On zo, 2005-09-04 at 11:19 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that 8250_hp300 is buggy wrt the ordering of hardware
> initialisation to the visibility of devices to user space. Namely,
> 8250_hp300 does the following:
>
> ...
> serial8250_register_port() makes the port visible to userspace, so
> from that point on it could be opened. However, if it's opened
> prior to the remainder of the above completing, we will be missing
> interrupts (and what effect does "reset the DCA" have?)
>
> Surely this hardware fiddling should be completed before we register
> the port?
Yes, you are right. I am working on rewriting the driver a bit to use a
platform device for the APCI driver, I'll take your bug report into
account as well.
On a related note: can I use the "serial8250" platform driver also for
non-ISA devices (like my APCI platform device)? The comments in
drivers/serial/8250.c suggest it's for ISA devices only, but I don't see
a particular reason for not using it for my APCI devices.
Kind regards,
Kars.
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