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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1108130553490.22593@boston.corp.fedex.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:59:04 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@...trinvest.ru>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: How to access serial port that is set in BIOS as OS Controlled
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
wrote:
> I think this is all working as expected now. PNP automatically
> configures the port and enables it. The 8250_pnp driver automatically
> claims it. And I assume the port "just works" without any setserial or
> sysfs manipulations at all. Does that solve your issue?
Yes, it solved my issue:) Big thanks to you!
> We need to think a bit more about whether this the right approach for
> handling _SRS and whether it's in the right place. But I think this is
> a start, at least.
Agreed.
Please push the patch to Linus so he can include it to his tree to solve
os-controlled devices so they can automatically be used under Linux.
Thank you Andrey and Bjorn for helping out!
Thanks,
Jeff
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