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[PATCH] ia64: note requirement for 8250_pnp, now that 8250_acpi is gone
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We removed 8250_acpi in 2.6.17.  If we don't have PNPACPI turned on, we
won't find any ACPI serial devices, so mention this requirement in the
troubleshooting part of the documentation.

CONFIG_PNPACPI is already turned on in all the relevant defconfigs.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 3, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ TROUBLESHOOTING SERIAL CONSOLE PROBLEMS

- Add entry to /etc/securetty for console tty.

No ACPI serial devices found in 2.6.17 or later:

- Turn on CONFIG_PNP and CONFIG_PNPACPI. Prior to 2.6.17, ACPI
serial devices were discovered by 8250_acpi. In 2.6.17,
8250_acpi was replaced by the combination of 8250_pnp and
CONFIG_PNPACPI.



[1] http://www.dig64.org/specifications/DIG64_PCDPv20.pdf
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