On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:37:03AM +0100, Sean Young wrote: >The serial driver will detect the winbond cir device as a serial port, >since it looks exactly like a serial port unless you know what it is >from the PNP ID. > >Winbond CIR 00:04: Region 0x2f8-0x2ff already in use! >Winbond CIR 00:04: disabled >Winbond CIR: probe of 00:04 failed with error -16 The proposed solution means that a serial port will show up and then automagically disappear (potentially) during boot, which isn't very elegant. When I discussed this a long time ago with Alan Cox (while he was still the serial maintainer) I got the feeling that he was advocating implementing a PNP ID based blacklist in the serial driver (apologies to Alan if I misrepresented him now). That seems to be a better solution (one that I never got around to implementing myself). > >Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> >--- > drivers/media/rc/winbond-cir.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (BTW, I'm on vacation with sporadic Internet access for two more weeks, and when I return I'll be spending most of my spare time moving in to a new apartment, expect slow turnaround times for replying to emails). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
