[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Oct 20 21:32:53 UTC 2015
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-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt28.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From cc4da046ede645607381198a670a63dff9343f06 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 35d9ab9..91b1420 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
@@ -365,6 +365,11 @@ 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 }
};
--
1.9.1
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