Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S973035AbXHMR6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:58:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S938680AbXHMRp4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:45:56 -0400 Received: from foo.birdnet.se ([213.88.146.6]:52940 "EHLO foo.birdnet.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032259AbXHMRpt (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:45:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:45:49 EDT Message-ID: <20070813173906.14407.qmail@cdy.org> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:39:06 +0200 From: Peter Stuge To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Andrey Borzenkov , Samuel Ortiz , Michal Piotrowski , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Linus Walleij \(LD/EAB\)" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc: regression: no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip Mail-Followup-To: Bjorn Helgaas , Andrey Borzenkov , Samuel Ortiz , Michal Piotrowski , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Linus Walleij (LD/EAB)" , Andrew Morton References: <200706300545.43181.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200708112239.37475.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <200708131009.46641.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200708131009.46641.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1005 Lines: 24 On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:09:46AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > [ 2207.986873] smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x2e8 > > As of 2.6.23-rc2, we should have: > - probes for 8250 legacy devices (as in 2.6.21 and previous) > - smsc PNP probes turned off by default (2.6.21 and previous had > no PNP probes for smsc at all) > - some complicated PNP quirks for SMCf010 devices > > In other words, I think we're basically back where we started. The > 8250 driver should find a ttyS3 device at 0x2e8, and it should > claim those ports, which will prevent smsc from claiming them. I use 8250.nr_uarts=1 appended to my kernel parameters on my laptop. Perfectly reliable workaround, but if it is possible to detect, then all the better! //Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/