From 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:36:07 -0700 Subject: x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices Make x86 COM ports into platform devices and don't probe for them if we have PNP. This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by the legacy probe and by 8250_pnp, e.g., serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A This also means IRDA devices without a UART PNP ID will no longer be claimed by the serial driver, which might require changes in IRDA drivers and administration. In addition to this patch, you may need to configure a setserial init script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, so it doesn't poke legacy UART stuff back in. On Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure setserial" with the "kernel" option does this. To force the old legacy probe behavior even when we have PNPBIOS or ACPI, load the new legacy_serial module (or build 8250 static) with the "legacy_serial.force" option. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix makefiles] Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Keith Owens Cc: Len Brown Cc: Adam Belay Cc: Matthieu CASTET Cc: Jean Tourrilhes Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Ville Syrjala Cc: Russell King Cc: Samuel Ortiz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/serial/Kconfig | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/serial') diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig index 924e9bd757f0..e8efe938c4e7 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig @@ -73,17 +73,21 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PCI depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI default SERIAL_8250 help - This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to - disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support. - Saves about 9K. + Say Y here if you have PCI serial ports. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module + will be called 8250_pci. config SERIAL_8250_PNP tristate "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EMBEDDED depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP default SERIAL_8250 help - This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to - disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support. + Say Y here if you have serial ports described by PNPBIOS or ACPI. + These are typically ports built into the system board. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module + will be called 8250_pnp. config SERIAL_8250_HP300 tristate -- cgit v1.2.3