ia64 failure with [PATCH] 8250: Let arch provide the list ofleagacy ports

[James Bottomley]

ia64 seems to rely on empty ports being registered.  Without this, ia64
crashes on boot with

Removing wrong port: 0000000000000000 != a000000100781bd8

James

===== drivers/serial/8250.c 1.76 vs edited =====
--- 1.76/drivers/serial/8250.c	2004-10-22 18:31:26 -05:00
+++ edited/drivers/serial/8250.c	2004-10-25 16:59:22 -05:00
@@ -2001,13 +2001,6 @@
 	for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++) {
 		struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[i];
 
-		/* Don't register "empty" ports, setting "ops" on them
-		 * makes the console driver "setup" routine to succeed,
-		 * which is wrong. --BenH.
-		 */
-		if (!up->port.iobase)
-			continue;
-
 		up->port.line = i;
 		up->port.ops = &serial8250_pops;
 		up->port.dev = dev;

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