[PATCH] of_serial: ignore unknown serial port
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Wed Jun 6 15:58:21 EST 2007
Ishizaki Kou writes:
> Current of_serial driver assumes unknown serial port to be 8250. But
> this behavior may cause fatal problems when the serial port is not
> 8250. This patch corrects probe routine to ignore unknown serial port.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki at toshiba.co.jp>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Is this a bugfix that needs to go in 2.6.22? Likewise, is your next
patch (of_serial: add port type checking) needed in 2.6.22?
Paul.
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