From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>, Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>,
Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/15] serial: when guessing, check only active resources, not options
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:21:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806020921.04350.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4842FB89.6040802@keyaccess.nl>
On Sunday 01 June 2008 01:42:01 pm Rene Herman wrote:
> We used to cry "modem" if the device _could_ be configured using a COM
> address while after this change we'd only do so if it _was_ configured
> using one.
>
> My old analog modem for example had 5 dependent sets -- the first with
> the regular COM port addresses (0x3f8, 0x2f8, 0x3e8, 0x2e8) and a 5th
> one listing a port range of (IIRC, something like that at least) 0x100
> to 0xff8.
>
> So say I'd have a PC with the regular two onboard COM ports at COM1 and
> COM2 (0x3f8 and 0x2f8) and an additional serial controller providing
> COM3 and COM4 (0x3e8 and 0x2e8). My modem would then be configured to
> use 0x100 and this code would no longer trigger while it did use to.
Ah, you're right. That scenario hadn't occurred to me. Let me see
if I can figure out a way to make that work again.
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 22:48 [patch 00/15] PNP: convert resource options to unified dynamic list, v1 Bjorn Helgaas
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 01/15] serial: when guessing, check only active resources, not options Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 19:42 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-02 15:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 02/15] PNP: whitespace/coding style fixes Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 19:52 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 03/15] PNP: define PNP-specific IORESOURCE_IO_* flags alongside IRQ, DMA, MEM Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:03 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 04/15] PNP: make resource option structures private to PNP subsystem Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:06 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 05/15] PNP: introduce pnp_irq_mask_t typedef Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:25 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 06/15] PNP: increase I/O port & memory option address sizes Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:39 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 07/15] PNP: improve resource assignment debug Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:41 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 08/15] PNP: in debug resource dump, make empty list obvious Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:44 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 09/15] PNP: make resource assignment functions return 0 (success) or -EBUSY (failure) Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:59 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 10/15] PNP: remove redundant pnp_can_configure() check Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 22:00 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 11/15] PNP: centralize resource option allocations Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 23:21 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-02 15:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 12/15] PNPACPI: ignore _PRS interrupt numbers larger than PNP_IRQ_NR Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 23:23 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 13/15] PNP: rename pnp_register_*_resource() local variables Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 23:25 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 14/15] PNP: support optional IRQ resources Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 17:37 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-03 20:20 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 20:25 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 15/15] PNP: convert resource options to single linked list Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 19:57 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-03 23:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-04 0:03 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-03 23:52 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 11:48 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 20:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-04 22:31 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 23:06 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 21:13 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 21:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 19:28 ` [patch 00/15] PNP: convert resource options to unified dynamic list, v1 Rene Herman
2008-06-02 15:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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