Bug#385284: Serial controller Timedia stop work on new kernel

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:03:05PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > Version: 2.6.17-2
> 
> > I have a serial controller Timedia, that works fine under 2.4.27-3-686
> > but not on kernel 2.6.16-2-686 and 2.6.17-2-686.
> 
> 
> can you please try a recent kernel aka 2.6.24 or 2.6.25 is it still
> reproducible there?
> 
> i see several support in serial
> drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:      { 1, timedia_single_port },
> drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:      { 2, timedia_dual_port },
> drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:      { 4, timedia_quad_port },
> drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:      { 8, timedia_eight_port }

Joao,
does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz