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SubjectRe: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console
Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 02:13:49 pm Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> - Linux enumerates CPUs with the MADT; I think Windows uses the ACPI
>>> namespace. Sometimes there are multiple MADTs, and sometimes Linux
>>> uses the wrong one.
>> Color me skeptical. I think we would have bug reports if we were really
>> getting this wrong a lot of the time.
>
> We do have bug reports, like http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465
> Not very many, but enough that I'd like to get to the root cause.
>
>> You seem to be missing that ignoring BIOS is often a VERY GOOD thing,
>> that has served us well many many times in the past.
>
> I can see that I'm not going to win this argument :-)
>
> But I would like to find and fix the problem with Sebastien's machine,
> because the patch does fix real problems with IRDA and I think the fix
> for Sebastien is likely to fix other PNP issues.

Please go back and fix the original issue!

If you are having problems caused by double-probing, the fix is NOT to
remove one the probes. The fix is to ensure use of proper resource
reservation, and in some cases, add co-driver-awareness.

Your entire justification for the patch has not been proven, since you
demonstrably have not solved the original bug for which your patch was
intended to solve.

Jeff


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