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
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