On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:31:50PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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. Is there a link to the oops as well? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
