Re: [PATCH] 8250: option 'force_polling' for buggy IRQs

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 08:09:39 EST

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> I simply thought this patch may be useful for other people as well, that's
> why I sent it upstream.

If you set the IRQ to 0 it should poll anyway (0 means 'no IRQ') so I
don't think the option is needed. At least it seems sufficient to get me
by when I meet buggy PC BIOSes and the like

Alan

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