Re: [RFC/PATCH] Winbond CIR driver for the WPCD376I chip (ACPI/PNP id WEC1022)

From: David Härdeman
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 09:29:00 EST


On Thu, June 25, 2009 15:17, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Which way of stopping the serial layer from grabbing the port did you
>> have in mind?
>
> You can vanish it with setserial as stands. There isn't a good
> interface for doing that from kernel side but as you can see from
> setserial the infrastructure is all there to add it.

Seems user-unfriendly...wouldn't blacklisting that particular port (using
ACPI or PNP id or something) be a better solution?

--
David Härdeman

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