It turned out that mounting a corrupted ISO image to a regular file may
succeed, e.g.  if an image was prepared as follows:

$ dd if=correct.iso of=bad.iso bs=4k count=8

We then can mount it to a regular file:

# mount -o loop -t iso9660 bad.iso /tmp/file

But mounting it to a directory fails with -ENOTDIR, simply because
the root directory inode doesn't have S_IFDIR set and the condition
in graft_tree() is met:

	if (S_ISDIR(nd->dentry->d_inode->i_mode) !=
	      S_ISDIR(mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mode))
		return -ENOTDIR

This is because the root directory inode was read from an incorrect
block. It's supposed to be read from sbi->s_firstdatazone, which is
an absolute value and gets messed up in the case of an incorrect image.

In order to somehow circumvent this we have to check that the root
directory inode is actually a directory after all.
Signed-off-by: NKirill Kuvaldin <kuvkir@epsmu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove tx3912fb.  Nino has already removed.  It is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The serial console can select only SERIAL_VR41XX=y.
Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

only PORT_VR41XX_SIU can select interface.
Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix section mismatch vr41xx_siu.

WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x2ce4c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:uart_parse_options (between 'siu_console_setup' and 'siu_request_port')
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x2ce70): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:uart_set_options (between 'siu_console_setup' and 'siu_request_port')
Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

pure_initcall uses the same ID as core_initcall.  I guess that's a typo and
it should use its own ID.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

One patch for two trivial typos of 'error' with three R's, appearing in message strings.

There's a bunch more of the same in comments, not dealt with here.
Signed-off-by: NEddy L O Jansson <eddy@klopper.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As reported by Gustavo de Nardin <gustavodn@mandriva.com.br>, while trying to
compile xosview (http://xosview.sourceforge.net/) with upstream kernel
headers being used you get the following errors:
serialmeter.cc:48:30: error: linux/serial_reg.h: No such file or directory
serialmeter.cc: In member function 'virtual void
SerialMeter::checkResources()':
serialmeter.cc:71: error: 'UART_LSR' was not declared in this scope
serialmeter.cc:71: error: 'UART_MSR' was not declared in this scope
...
Signed-off-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Gustavo de Nardin <gustavodn@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The fourth argument of sys_futex is ignored when op == FUTEX_WAKE_OP,
but futex_wake_op expects it as its nr_wake2 parameter.

The only user of this operation in glibc is always passing 1, so this
bug had no consequences so far.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On every open/close one struct seq_operations leaks.
Kudos to /proc/slab_allocators.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix file locking for AFS:

 (*) Start the lock manager thread under a mutex to avoid a race.

 (*) Made the locking non-fair: New readlocks will jump pending writelocks if
     there's a readlock currently granted on a file.  This makes the behaviour
     similar to Linux's VFS locking.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The rcu_dereference() primitive needs to be applied to an l-value in order to
ensure that compiler writers don't get an opportunity to apply reordering
optimizations that could result in multiple fetches or in other misbehavior.
This patch pulls the rcu_dereference() calls in bpq_seq_next() up to the point
at which the fetched pointers are still l-values, rather than after
list_entry() has transformed them into r-values.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When user locks an ipc shmem segmant with SHM_LOCK ctl and the segment is
already locked the shmem_lock() function returns 0.  After this the
subsequent code leaks the existing user struct:

== ipc/shm.c: sys_shmctl() ==
     ...
     err = shmem_lock(shp->shm_file, 1, user);
     if (!err) {
          shp->shm_perm.mode |= SHM_LOCKED;
          shp->mlock_user = user;
     }
     ...
==

Other results of this are:
1. the new shp->mlock_user is not get-ed and will point to freed
   memory when the task dies.
2. the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is screwed on both user structs.

The exploit looks like this:

==
    id = shmget(...);
    setresuid(uid, 0, 0);
    shmctl(id, SHM_LOCK, NULL);
    setresuid(uid + 1, 0, 0);
    shmctl(id, SHM_LOCK, NULL);
==

My solution is to return 0 to the userspace and do not change the
segment's user.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes.  Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:

  LD      vmlinux
  SYSMAP  System.map
  SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
  MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove the duplicate inclusion of asm/irq.h from
arch/m68knommu/platform/5206e/config.c
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

alpha:

In file included from kernel/notifier.c:1:
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: warning: 'struct notifier_block' declared inside parameter list
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
include/linux/kdebug.h:15: warning: 'struct notifier_block' declared inside parameter list
kernel/notifier.c:529: error: conflicting types for 'register_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: error: previous declaration of 'register_die_notifier' was here
kernel/notifier.c:533: error: conflicting types for 'register_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: error: previous declaration of 'register_die_notifier' was here
kernel/notifier.c:536: error: conflicting types for 'unregister_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:15: error: previous declaration of 'unregister_die_notifier' was here
kernel/notifier.c:539: error: conflicting types for 'unregister_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:15: error: previous declaration of 'unregister_die_notifier' was here

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This exposes the hardware loopback mode to drivers, primarily for testing.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is a simple utility used to test SPI functionality.  It could stand
growing options to support using other test data patterns; this initial
version only issues full duplex transfers, which rules out 3WIRE or
Microwire links.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The spidev driver doesn't currently expose all SPI communications modes to
userspace.  This passes them all through to the driver.

Two of them are potentially troublesome, in the sense that they could cause
hardware conflicts on shared busses.  It might be appropriate to add some
privilege checks for for those modes.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Loopback mode is supported by various controllers.  This mode can be
useful for testing, especially in conjunction with spidev driver.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

spi_mpc83xx should use other shifts when running in QE+LSB mode.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This controller supports LSB-first transfers; let drivers use them.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Magic-numbers-R-Evil
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Documentation clearly states, that mode should not be changed till
SPMODE_ENABLE bit set.  I've seen hangs w/o this patch.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The arm26 port has been in a state where it was far from even compiling
for quite some time.

Ian Molton agreed with the removal.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit eab03ac7 aka
"[PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/proc" was good commit except strace(1) compile
breakage it introduced:

	system.c:1581: error: 'CTL_PROC' undeclared here (not in a function)

So, add dummy enum back.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NSatyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix typos and update function parameters.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMuli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs
in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable?  I cannot imagine it to be
security relevant especially now that a getcpu() syscall can be used to
determine what CPUa thread runs on.

The file is useful to correctly implement the sysconf() function to return
the number of online CPUs.  In the presence of hotplug we currently cannot
provide this information.  The patch below should to it.
Signed-off-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

arch/i386/kernel/apm.c: In function 'apm_init':
arch/i386/kernel/apm.c:2240: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long
	unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u32'

apm_info.bios.offset is of type 'u32'.
Signed-off-by: NEugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Acked-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add $(LIBS_Y) to get lib/lib.a so srm_printk is present.
Signed-off-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kasprintf pulls in kmalloc which proved to be fatal for at least
bootimage target on alpha.
Move it to a separate file so only users of kasprintf are exposed
to the dependency on kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In current 2.6.23-rc1+git, make bootimage gives the following warning while
compiling arch/alpha/boot/main.c.  The patch below fixes the warning by
casting callback argument explicitly to void*.  The original value comes from
START_ADDR macro and is clearly numeric so only cast it for the callback.

  CC      arch/alpha/boot/main.o
arch/alpha/boot/main.c: In function 'load':
arch/alpha/boot/main.c:135: warning: passing argument 3 of 'callback_read' makes pointer from integer without a cast
Signed-off-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In current 2.6.23-rc1+git, make bootimage gives the following warnings while
compiling objstrip.c.  The patch below fixes these warnings by casting strncmp
argument to char * - it does not seem feasible to change its type in struct
elfhdr.

  HOSTCC  arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: In function 'main':
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of '__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c:147: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strncmp' differ in signedness
Signed-off-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In current 2.6.23-rc1+git, make bootimage gives the following warnings while
compiling mkbb.c.  The patch below fixes these warnings by using the proper
include for exit() and using appropriate printf format.

  HOSTCC  arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c: In function 'main':
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:95: warning: implicit declaration of function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:95: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:102: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:110: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:117: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:118: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:125: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:126: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:143: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c:148: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
Signed-off-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Documentation: document HFSPlus filesystem and its mount options.
Signed-off-by: NWyatt Banks <wyatt@banksresearch.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Give sockets up to 100ms of additional time to power down.  otherwise we
might generate false warnings with KERN_ERR priority (like in bug #8262).
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: Nils Neumann <nils.neumann@rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Revert 7e92b4fc.  It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)

  This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
  breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."

  It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO.  Serial ports are something
  that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game.  My new Intel
  platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
  messing with serial port probing even more...  because...  just wait a year,
  and your box won't have a serial port either!  :)

  I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
  but the probe change seems questionable.  That's sorta analagous to
  rewriting the floppy driver probe routine.  Sure you could do it...  but why
  risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?

  It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
  something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.

Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.

Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>