Patch "serial: 8250: bind to ALi Fast Infrared Controller (ALI5123)" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

serial: 8250: bind to ALi Fast Infrared Controller (ALI5123)

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     serial-8250-bind-to-ali-fast-infrared-controller-ali5123.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:15:05 +0200
Subject: serial: 8250: bind to ALi Fast Infrared Controller (ALI5123)

From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <[email protected]>

commit 1d7002777a8fe8188caaa98d4a8eb4ed298fcdae upstream.

This way this device can be used with irtty-sir -
at least on Toshiba Satellite A20-S103 it is not configured by default and needs PNP activation before it starts to respond on I/O ports.

This device has actually its own driver (ali-ircc), but this driver seems to be non-functional for a very long time (see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.irda.general/484
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.protocols.obex.openobex.user/943
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535070 ).

---
 drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c            |    1 +
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id acpi_
 	{"AEI0250"},		/* PROLiNK 1456VH ISA PnP K56flex Fax Modem */
 	{"AEI1240"},		/* Actiontec ISA PNP 56K X2 Fax Modem */
 	{"AKY1021"},		/* Rockwell 56K ACF II Fax+Data+Voice Modem */
+	{"ALI5123"},		/* ALi Fast Infrared Controller */
 	{"AZT4001"},		/* AZT3005 PnP SOUND DEVICE */
 	{"BDP3336"},		/* Best Data Products Inc. Smart One 336F PnP Modem */
 	{"BRI0A49"},		/* Boca Complete Ofc Communicator 14.4 Data-FAX */

@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id pnp_de
 	{	"AEI1240",		0	},
 	/* Rockwell 56K ACF II Fax+Data+Voice Modem */
 	{	"AKY1021",		0 /*SPCI_FL_NO_SHIRQ*/	},
+	/*
+	 * ALi Fast Infrared Controller
+	 * Native driver (ali-ircc) is broken so at least
+	 * it can be used with irtty-sir.
+	 */
+	{	"ALI5123",		0	},
 	/* AZT3005 PnP SOUND DEVICE */
 	{	"AZT4001",		0	},
 	/* Best Data Products Inc. Smart One 336F PnP Modem */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/serial-8250-bind-to-ali-fast-infrared-controller-ali5123.patch queue-4.1/serial-8250-don-t-bind-to-smsc-ircc-ir-port.patch