On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 21:16 +0100, Torsten Crass wrote: > Hi, > > ok, 'twas my fault -- loading lirc_serial with share_irq=1 did the > trick. Hence I ask you to close this bug report. No, this is not your fault. PC serial ports generally can't (and don't) share IRQs and it should not be necessary to use this parameter. You originally wrote: > althoug I disabled serial port /dev/ttyS1 via setserial, lirc_serial > claims the specified IO port (0x02f8) and IRQ (3) to be in use. However, > "cat /proc/ioports" and "cat /proc/interrupts" tell otherwise. [...] > 3: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge > 4: 1 1 0 2 IO-APIC-edge Although these lines seem to there is no interrupt handler for these IRQs, the very fact that an IRQ is listed in /proc/interrupts means there is one. It's just that in this case the name is blank - and that points to the bug. I think what you did was something like that: # modprobe lirc_serial FATAL: Error inserting lirc_serial ...: Device or resource busy # modprobe lirc_serial io=0x2f8 irq=3 FATAL: Error inserting lirc_serial ...: Device or resource busy # dmesg | less ... # setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none # modprobe lirc_serial io=0x2f8 irq=3 FATAL: Error inserting lirc_serial ...: Device or resource busy On each failure the module: 1. Allocated the IRQ, which succeeded because the serial driver does not allocate it until the serial device is in use. 2. Attempted to allocate the I/O region, which failed because the regular serial driver had allocated it. 3. Exited - without releasing the IRQ. So when you got the configuration right the driver still failed, because the IRQ was already allocated. If you get the configuration right first time the driver will work: # setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none # modprobe lirc_serial io=0x2f8 irq=3 I reproduced the failure (and success) in a VM and I have a series of fixes for the module which I'll apply shortly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
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