Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:35:33 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Winbond CIR driver for the WPCD376I chip (ACPI/PNP id WEC1022) |
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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:28:31 +0200 (CEST) David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> wrote:
> On Thu, June 25, 2009 15:17, Alan Cox wrote: > >> Which way of stopping the serial layer from grabbing the port did you > >> have in mind? > > > > You can vanish it with setserial as stands. There isn't a good > > interface for doing that from kernel side but as you can see from > > setserial the infrastructure is all there to add it. > > Seems user-unfriendly...wouldn't blacklisting that particular port (using > ACPI or PNP id or something) be a better solution?
Possibly - what I am saying is that the mechanisms exist internally for this including flipping a port at run time between IR and normal modes when appropriate -- 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/
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