Re: Merge BUG in 2.4.15-pre4 serial.c

[Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>]

Russell King wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:49:24PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > I have found the following code in serial.c aorund line 5565
> >
> > #ifdef __i386__
> >       if (i == NR_PORTS) {
> >               for (i = 4; i < NR_PORTS; i++)
> >                       if ((rs_table[i].type == PORT_UNKNOWN) &&
> >                           (rs_table[i].count == 0))
> >                               break;
> >       }
> > #endif
> >       if (i == NR_PORTS) {
> >               for (i = 0; i < NR_PORTS; i++)
> >                       if ((rs_table[i].type == PORT_UNKNOWN) &&
> >                           (rs_table[i].count == 0))
> >                               break;
> >       }
> >
> > This is supposedly the result of applying some patch twice.
> > Let me guess the first 8 lines of this can be deleted.
> 
> Look at it closer, in particular the for() loops.
> 
> It's basically there so that on x86, we don't normally use ttyS0-3
> for pcmcia and other similar ports, unless we run out of other ports
> to use.

Well I still think that the 8 lines can be deleted. Once again my famous
notbook is perfectly __i386__ and doesn't contain any devices served by
serial.c
unless I configure IrDA. Pushing the port numbers artificially behind
doesn't make sense for me and makes some setserial unknown tricks
neccessary
for irtty setup.