[PATCH] of_serial: ignore unknown serial port

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 6 19:09:39 EST 2007


>> 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?

This potentially breaks lots of other platforms, so no
please, put it in early in the next cycle and give those
others time to recover from this change.


Segher




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