PNP: notice whether we have PNP devices (PNPBIOS or PNPACPI)
authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Tue, 8 May 2007 07:35:54 +0000 (00:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 8 May 2007 18:15:23 +0000 (11:15 -0700)
This series converts i386 and x86_64 legacy serial ports to be platform
devices and prevents probing for them if we have PNP.

This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by the legacy
probe and by 8250_pnp.

This also prevents the serial driver from claiming IRDA devices (unless they
have a UART PNP ID).  The serial legacy probe sometimes assumed the wrong IRQ,
so the user had to use "setserial" to fix it.

Removing the need for setserial to make IRDA devices work seems good, but it
does break some things.  In particular, you may need to keep setserial from
poking legacy UART stuff back in by doing something like "dpkg-reconfigure
setserial" with the "kernel" option.  Otherwise, the setserial-discovered
"UART" will claim resources and prevent the IRDA driver from loading.

This patch:

If we can discover devices using PNP, we can skip some legacy probes.  This
flag ("pnp_platform_devices") indicates that PNPBIOS or PNPACPI is enabled and
should tell us about builtin devices.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/pnp/core.c
drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
include/linux/pnp.h

index d8d75541552c255c7b711d5f8b37c16c16614a6a..3e20b1cc7778930f2477dc626fc281606b7e320b 100644 (file)
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ static LIST_HEAD(pnp_protocols);
 LIST_HEAD(pnp_global);
 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pnp_lock);
 
+/*
+ * ACPI or PNPBIOS should tell us about all platform devices, so we can
+ * skip some blind probes.  ISAPNP typically enumerates only plug-in ISA
+ * devices, not built-in things like COM ports.
+ */
+int pnp_platform_devices;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnp_platform_devices);
+
 void *pnp_alloc(long size)
 {
        void *result;
index 7eb8275185b61c28f1a22f58588f7b346973a119..a00548799e98f8655fbb9efcdd53c10e0837f06c 100644 (file)
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ static int __init pnpacpi_init(void)
        acpi_get_devices(NULL, pnpacpi_add_device_handler, NULL, NULL);
        pnp_info("PnP ACPI: found %d devices", num);
        unregister_acpi_bus_type(&acpi_pnp_bus);
+       pnp_platform_devices = 1;
        return 0;
 }
 subsys_initcall(pnpacpi_init);
index b71aff21b3fc81bf962c7a78435b6a38d90fe458..3a201b77b963af5134d0578d2624451f8d8fa8c5 100644 (file)
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ static int __init pnpbios_init(void)
        /* scan for pnpbios devices */
        build_devlist();
 
+       pnp_platform_devices = 1;
        return 0;
 }
 
index 00dae5ba128a12f2771397afeae6bb5ecba8d313..2a1897e6f9372a08a81054bd3d67cb8a43fe59c0 100644 (file)
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ int pnp_add_device(struct pnp_dev *dev);
 int pnp_device_attach(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev);
 void pnp_device_detach(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev);
 extern struct list_head pnp_global;
+extern int pnp_platform_devices;
 
 /* multidevice card support */
 int pnp_add_card(struct pnp_card *card);
@@ -411,6 +412,7 @@ static inline int pnp_init_device(struct pnp_dev *dev) { return -ENODEV; }
 static inline int pnp_add_device(struct pnp_dev *dev) { return -ENODEV; }
 static inline int pnp_device_attach(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev) { return -ENODEV; }
 static inline void pnp_device_detach(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev) { ; }
+#define pnp_platform_devices 0
 
 /* multidevice card support */
 static inline int pnp_add_card(struct pnp_card *card) { return -ENODEV; }