Re: [PATCH 02/18] lirc serial port receiver/transmitter device driver

[lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus)]

Hi Jarod,

on 12 Sep 08 at 12:24, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008 15:49:25 Stefan Bauer wrote:
>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>> Nothing in this function does anything to assure itself that the port
>>>> actually exists and is the right kind of hardware.  Maybe that can't
>>>> really be done with this kind of device?
>>>
>>> We should probably try to make sure the port actually exists, but I don't
>>> think there's a whole lot (if anything) we can do as far as verifying the
>>> device itself.

> I've borrowed the simple existence test from
> drivers/serial/8250.c::autoconfig(), which tries a few reads and writes from
> UART_IER. I think this is probably sufficient for verifying the port is
> legit.
>
> Christoph B., you're definitely much more familiar with serial IR devices
> than I am... Is there any sort of test you can think of that we could use to
> try to verify the existence of an IR device hooked to the port? Or should we
> be happy we at least know there's a port and just assume the IR device is
> there?

No, I can't think of anything else. OTOH there have never been real  
problems with this for the past 10 years...

Christoph