> Right now I don't think I have time for it (this is going to take time.. > there's so many weird things with serial ports that it's bound to break > stuff in the beginning etc) I can't duplicate this. Can you check you don't have config SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ bool "Autodetect IRQ on standard ports (unsafe)" depends on SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED help Say Y here if you want the kernel to try to guess which IRQ to use for your serial port. This is considered unsafe; it is far better to configure the IRQ in a boot script using the setserial command. If unsure, say N. enabled -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html