Actually, not really. It's only on the low side if your serial io ports are registered one at a time. One the other hand, if you have, say, 192 serial ports on a few intelligent cards, then you only end up with three io region requests (in my particular case) and no problems. I think that rather few systems out there are going to add enough devices that fall under this "Added one at a time" category to warrant such a change in the kernel. The existing table is really overkill for the typical user system and only becomes a problem on servers that use certain, specific brands/make of hardware.
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