[PATCH] ACPI serial fix

[Bjorn Helgaas]

Here's another little fix for ACPI serial discovery in 2.6.

Intel 870 firmware reports an extra zero-length IO port range, which
is bogus, as far as I can tell.  Ignore it.

===== drivers/serial/8250_acpi.c 1.4 vs edited =====
--- 1.4/drivers/serial/8250_acpi.c	Mon Oct  6 15:57:02 2003
+++ edited/drivers/serial/8250_acpi.c	Wed Oct  8 12:36:31 2003
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@
 static acpi_status acpi_serial_port(struct serial_struct *req,
 				    struct acpi_resource_io *io)
 {
+	if (!io->range_length) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: zero-length IO port range?\n", __FUNCTION__);
+		return AE_ERROR;
+	}
+
 	req->port = io->min_base_address;
 	req->io_type = SERIAL_IO_PORT;
 	return AE_OK;

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