This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: 8250: bind to ALi Fast Infrared Controller (ALI5123)
to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
serial-8250-bind-to-ali-fast-infrared-controller-ali5123.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1d7002777a8fe8188caaa98d4a8eb4ed298fcdae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:15:05 +0200
Subject: serial: 8250: bind to ALi Fast Infrared Controller (ALI5123)
From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1d7002777a8fe8188caaa98d4a8eb4ed298fcdae upstream.
This way this device can be used with irtty-sir -
at least on Toshiba Satellite A20-S103 it is not configured by default
and needs PNP activation before it starts to respond on I/O ports.
This device has actually its own driver (ali-ircc),
but this driver seems to be non-functional for a very long time
(see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.irda.general/484
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.protocols.obex.openobex.user/943
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535070 ).
Signed-off-by: Maciej Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c | 1 +
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id acpi_
{"AEI0250"}, /* PROLiNK 1456VH ISA PnP K56flex Fax Modem */
{"AEI1240"}, /* Actiontec ISA PNP 56K X2 Fax Modem */
{"AKY1021"}, /* Rockwell 56K ACF II Fax+Data+Voice Modem */
+ {"ALI5123"}, /* ALi Fast Infrared Controller */
{"AZT4001"}, /* AZT3005 PnP SOUND DEVICE */
{"BDP3336"}, /* Best Data Products Inc. Smart One 336F PnP Modem */
{"BRI0A49"}, /* Boca Complete Ofc Communicator 14.4 Data-FAX */
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id pnp_de
{ "AEI1240", 0 },
/* Rockwell 56K ACF II Fax+Data+Voice Modem */
{ "AKY1021", 0 /*SPCI_FL_NO_SHIRQ*/ },
+ /*
+ * ALi Fast Infrared Controller
+ * Native driver (ali-ircc) is broken so at least
+ * it can be used with irtty-sir.
+ */
+ { "ALI5123", 0 },
/* AZT3005 PnP SOUND DEVICE */
{ "AZT4001", 0 },
/* Best Data Products Inc. Smart One 336F PnP Modem */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/serial-8250-bind-to-ali-fast-infrared-controller-ali5123.patch
queue-4.2/serial-8250-don-t-bind-to-smsc-ircc-ir-port.patch
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