Hi Russell, On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > When a plug-and-play 8250 device is detected, the driver reuses one of the > > dummy ports. If that device is later removed, the port goes pack to the > > dummy ports pool. The capabilities field is not reset, which causes a oops > > when trying to access the port. > > Some day we need to allocate new dummy ports so there is always one free. > > > This patch resets the capabilities field when a 8250 device is > > unregistered. > > Looks good to me. Would appreciate Russell's view though. Could you please review the patch (available at http://marc.info/?l=linux-serial&m=121674107306179&w=2) ? I'd like it to go into 2.6.27 if possible. Best regards, -- Laurent Pinchart CSE Semaphore Belgium Chaussee de Bruxelles, 732A B-1410 Waterloo Belgium T +32 (2) 387 42 59 F +32 (2) 387 42 75
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