This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port
to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
serial-8250-don-t-bind-to-smsc-ircc-ir-port.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ffa34de03bcfbfa88d8352942bc238bb48e94e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:11:52 +0200
Subject: serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port
From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <[email protected]>
commit ffa34de03bcfbfa88d8352942bc238bb48e94e2d upstream.
SMSC IrCC SIR/FIR port should not be bound to by
(legacy) serial driver so its own driver (smsc-ircc2)
can bind to it.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Szmigiero <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id pnp_de
/* Winbond CIR port, should not be probed. We should keep track
of it to prevent the legacy serial driver from probing it */
{ "WEC1022", CIR_PORT },
+ /*
+ * SMSC IrCC SIR/FIR port, should not be probed by serial driver
+ * as well so its own driver can bind to it.
+ */
+ { "SMCF010", CIR_PORT },
{ "", 0 }
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-4.2/serial-8250-bind-to-ali-fast-infrared-controller-ali5123.patch
queue-4.2/serial-8250-don-t-bind-to-smsc-ircc-ir-port.patch
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