Re: [RFC patch] fallback to "no irq" hack for case of no pnp_irq allocated for 8250_pnp

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:50:53AM +0800, Luming Yu wrote:
> There is a "ttyS1 irq is -1" problem observed on tiger4 which cause
> the serial port broken.
> It is because that there is __no__ ACPI IRQ resource assigned for the
> serial port. So the value of the IRQ for the port is never changed
> since it got initialized to -1. The attached patch falls back to the
> "no irq" hack for this case. It works for me. Please review and test.

Seems reasonable to me.  Although arguably pnp_irq is broken, since
Linus has decreed that 0 means no irq on Linux.

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