[PATCH] disable CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Mon Jan 31 09:53:53 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:41 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> The autodetection of IRQ on standard serial ports perhaps made sense on
> old hardware, but not anymore. These days we know the IRQ from PnP info
> or simply assume the standard IRQ setting (IRQ4 for 0x3F8, IRQ3 for
> 0x2F8).

Sounds reasonable for Fedora, especially given the systems targeted, but
we should look for any fallout from this on older boxes.

Jon.




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