[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ef262746bb36f7f7649fca195ec3be5112e6885e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail at maciej.szmigiero.name>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:11:52 +0200
Subject: serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port

commit ffa34de03bcfbfa88d8352942bc238bb48e94e2d upstream.

SMSC IrCC SIR/FIR port should not be bound to by
(legacy) serial driver so its own driver (smsc-ircc2)
can bind to it.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Szmigiero <mail at maciej.szmigiero.name>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
index 682a2fb..2b22cc1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id pnp_dev_table[] = {
 	/* Winbond CIR port, should not be probed. We should keep track
 	   of it to prevent the legacy serial driver from probing it */
 	{	"WEC1022",		CIR_PORT	},
+	/*
+	 * SMSC IrCC SIR/FIR port, should not be probed by serial driver
+	 * as well so its own driver can bind to it.
+	 */
+	{	"SMCF010",		CIR_PORT	},
 	{	"",			0	}
 };

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