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    x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices · 7e92b4fc
    Bjorn Helgaas authored
    Make x86 COM ports into platform devices and don't probe for them
    if we have PNP.
    
    This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by
    the legacy probe and by 8250_pnp, e.g.,
    
        serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
        00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    
    This also means IRDA devices without a UART PNP ID will no longer be
    claimed by the serial driver, which might require changes in IRDA
    drivers and administration.
    
    In addition to this patch, you may need to configure a setserial init
    script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, so it doesn't poke legacy UART
    stuff back in.  On Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure setserial" with the "kernel"
    option does this.
    
    To force the old legacy probe behavior even when we have PNPBIOS or
    ACPI, load the new legacy_serial module (or build 8250 static) with
    the "legacy_serial.force" option.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix makefiles]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
    Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
    Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
    Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
    Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
    Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
    Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
    Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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