Re: [PATCH] serial: don't announce CIR serial ports

["Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for looking into it.

On 04.08.2015 03:46, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
> 
> On 08/02/2015 05:09 PM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> CIR type serial ports aren't real serial ports.
>> This is just a way to prevent legacy serial driver
>> from probing and eventually binding some resources
>> so don't announce them like normal serial ports.
> 
> I'd like to keep some form of reporting so that we know the
> port was properly probed; what about extending uart_report_port()
> to including CIR + disabled status?

Currently the printed message looks like this:
"00:01: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 7, base_baud = 115200) is a CIR port".

I think it would be best to skip a device file name in this case,
since this is how user sees (and uses) a real serial port.
The message would be then:
"00:01 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 7, base_baud = 115200) is a CIR port".

The dev name will always be present since the only current
"source" of CIR ports is PNP 8250 driver which sets 
dev pointer uncondtionally.

> Secondly, good catch! Because we should not be trying to
> register a console on this port, nor driving modem signals.
> 
> So maybe an early exit after uart_report_port?

All right, I will resubmit updated patch tomorrow.

> Regards,
> Peter Hurley

Best regards,
Maciej Szmigiero