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SubjectRe: 2.6.22-rc: regression: no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip
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On Thursday 07 June 2007 06:23:58 am Linus Walleij (LD/EAB) wrote:
> Björn wrote:
> > Something's wrong with this strategy. The BIOS is telling us
> > that an SMCf010 device is present, active, and responds at io
> > ports 0x100-0x107 and 0x2e8-0x2ef. The fact that it happens
> > to be on the other side of an ISA or LPC bridge should be
> > immaterial to the OS driver.
>
> Yes, ideally. Yes of course it is wrong, or from a platonic
> perspective. If nobody wrote buggy BIOS:es there would be no
> problem.

Yup, I agree that we will always need to work around BIOS bugs.

But smsc-ircc2 contains a *lot* of preconfigure stuff. I'm
skeptical that all of it is really to work around BIOS bugs.
I think it's more likely that Linux just isn't using the PNP
info correctly or drivers for other southbridge devices are
getting in the way.

> There is some history in the preconfigure functions:
> these come from the smcinit tool (see http://irda.sourceforge.net/smcinit/),

Thanks for the pointer. I'll read over that and see if I can
find a laptop to play with.

Bjorn

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