Bug#303844: resolve "device xxx is grabbed by another driver"

[Jacques Goldberg <goldberg@phep2.technion.ac.il>]

   For the sake of being accurrate:
   Who am I to judge "poor" the working solution almost instantly provided
by Sasha Khapyorsky?
   Obtaining the same effect with a loadable module will be better because
it will not require compilation of the kernel, just of the module. But
when?
   Any TRAINED user who wants the patched routine 8250_pci.c can obtain it
individually from me and rebuild her/his kernel. Including the patched
routine in a distro is not desirable because, very quickly, nobody will
know which version she/he uses, and forget to compile again the kernel
after the next kernel upgrade.

                                                 Jacques
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, David Liontooth wrote:

> Jacques Goldberg writes the patch submitted with this bugreport is a
> poor solution to the problem and should not be used.
> I request the bugreport be closed; a solution is in the works in the
> mainline kernel.
>
> Dave
>

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