Re: PNPACPI probes serial twice, messes up serial console

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 01:09:19 EST


On Wednesday 21 March 2007 22:23, Keith Owens wrote:
> The aim of the patch looks sensible, but it will not compile for
> 2.6.21-rc4. 8250_x86.c tests pnp_platform_devices, which does not
> exist. Also the combination of CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_X86=y and
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=m would result in 8250_x86.o being built into
> vmlinux but referring to serial8250_nopnp in module 8250_pnp.o, kernel
> to module references are tricky.

OK, I'll rework it and update it. It will probably take me
a couple weeks though.
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