Re: serial: 8250 fails to detect Exar XR16L2551 correctly

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 19:04:20 EST


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:00:57PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 20:46 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > There was a bug in this area - does it happen with latest and greatest
> > kernels?
>
> Yes, I'm using a git pull from ~5hrs ago. How recent was the bug
> fix? It worked fine before I applied David's patch, the A2 UART was
> detected as a 16550A. Thanks,

The fix for this went in on 21st May 2005, so obviously it's not
actually fixed.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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