Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:45:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [CFT] Serial double initialisation |
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On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> A while ago, Alan reported to me a double-initialisation bug between the > ISA init and PNP initialisation of serial ports. > > Since then, Alan integrated a patch I sent him into -ac, and as yet I > haven't heard any feedback. Since I don't have the PNP hardware to be > able to test this, I'm not putting it into Linus' tree until I hear some > success. > > So, if people are using 2.5.50 with PNP support enabled, and if you are > seeing two "ttyS0" lines during the kernel boot messages, please apply > this patch and confirm to me that it correctly reports one ttyS0 message.
Thanks for checking this out, the double init only comes when you have CONFIG_PNPBIOS enabled, but CONFIG_ISAPNP alone is fine. I tested the patch with both and it does indeed fix the problem.
Cheers, Zwane
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